Table 3.
Changes in the use of antibiotics in the different pathological conditions before and after the physician’s educational intervention.
| Pathological condition | Totala, no. (%) | Educational intervention |
p Value (χ2) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beforea, no. (%) | Aftera, no. (%) | |||
| Common cold | 262 (3.9) | 201 (5.6) | 61 (2.0) | 0.183 |
| Acute otitis media | 283 (84.2) | 179 (89.1) | 104 (77.0) | 0.022 |
| Acute sinusitis | 278 (85.8) | 168 (86.2) | 110 (85.3) | 0.855 |
| Acute pharyngitis and tonsillitis | 2110 (39.0) | 1290 (44.4) | 820 (32.7) | 0.089 |
| Acute bronchitis | 1055 (65.6) | 689 (72.7) | 366 (56.0) | 0.013 |
| Pneumonia | 188 (89.1) | 93 (89.4) | 95 (88.8) | 0.892 |
| Exacerbation of COPD/chronic bronchitis | 282 (80.8) | 161 (85.2) | 121 (75.6) | 0.087 |
| Influenza | 89 (5.1) | 70 (6.2) | 19 (3.1) | 0.297 |
| Other conditions | 213 (22.5) | 153 (29.8) | 60 (13.8) | 0.006 |
aFrequency of antibiotic use is expressed as numbers and percentages in the overall study population and divided according to the time at which the patient was evaluated by the primary care physician, before or after the intervention.