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Table 5 Results of mixed effects models pre-intervention year and intervention yeara

From: Behavioral interventions to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing: a randomized pilot trial

 

Year prior to the intervention

Calendar quarter

 

Odds Ratios (95 % confidence Intervals)

Antibiotic for non-antibiotic appropriate ARI diagnoses

6.34 (3.49–11.5)*

1.01 (0.90–1.14)

Antibiotic for potentially-antibiotic-appropriate ARI diagnoses

2.40 (1.69–3.42)*

1.11 (1.03–1.20)**

Antibiotic for other ARIs diagnoses or symptoms of interest

1.59 (1.10–2.29)***

0.98 (0.90–1.06)

Antibiotic for all three combined

2.28 (1.83–2.83)*

1.03 (0.98–1.08)

  1. ARI acute respiratory infection
  2. * p < 0.001
  3. ** p <0.01
  4. ** p < 0.05
  5. aModels predicting antibiotic prescribing include a pre-intervention year variable and a continuous variable for calendar quarter as fixed effects, and clinician as random effects. Analyses are exploratory