Table 4 Antibiotic prescribing for eligible visits with all potential ARI diagnoses, pre-intervention year and intervention year
From: Behavioral interventions to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing: a randomized pilot trial
Diagnosis Category | Year prior to intervention | Intervention year | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | % of ARI visits in diagnosis category | Number visits given antibiotic | Number eligible visits | Percentage prescribed antibiotic | % of ARI visits in diagnosis category | Number visits given antibiotic | Number eligible visits | Percentage prescribed antibiotic |
Non-Antibiotic Appropriate ARI Diagnoses | 26.0 | 210 | 851 | 24.7 | 28.7 | 46 | 889 | 5.2 |
Potentially Antibiotic Appropriate ARI Diagnoses | 24.9 | 411 | 817 | 50.3 | 24.3 | 336 | 752 | 44.7 |
Other ARIs Diagnoses or Symptoms of Interest | 49.1 | 646 | 1608 | 40.2 | 47.0 | 369 | 1458 | 25.3 |
All diagnoses combined | 100 | 1267 | 3276 | 38.7 | 100 | 751 | 3099 | 24.2 |