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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2021 Feb 24;42(12):1437–1444. doi: 10.1017/ice.2021.21

Table 3.

Risk ratio estimates for the association between rural-urban status and receipt of an inappropriate antibiotic prescription.

Inappropriate antibiotic
prescription
No. (%)		 Appropriate antibiotic
prescription
No. (%)		 Unadjusted RR
(95% CI)		 Adjusted RR a
(95% CI)
By agent
 Rural 42,391 (13.5) 49,942 (14.0) 0.98 (0.97 to 0.99) 0.98 (0.98 to 0.99)
 Urban 270,897 (86.5) 307,220 (86.0) 1.00 1.00
By duration
 Rural 77,497 (15.2) 14,836 (9.3) 1.12 (1.12 to 1.12) 1.10 (1.10 to 1.10)
 Urban 433,356 (84.8) 144,761 (90.7) 1.00 1.00