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Table 1 Antibiotic prescriptions for respiratory tract infections

From: Privacy-preserving architecture for providing feedback to clinicians on their clinical performance

Year

Number of RTIsa cases

Number of antibiotic prescriptions (%)

Number of narrow-spectrum antibioticb prescriptions (%)

Number of broad-spectrum antibioticc prescriptions (%)

2015

3121

713 (22.9)

361 (50.6)

352 (49.4)

2016

3339

722 (21.6)

412 (57.1)

310 (42.9)

2017

4034

790 (19.6)

481 (60.9)

309 (39.1)

2018

3902

699 (17.9)

476 (68.1)

223 (31.9)

  1. a Respiratory tract infections (RTIs) include ICPC-2e = R74, R75, R77, R78, R83, and H71
  2. b Narrow-spectrum antibiotics include ATC = J01CE
  3. c Broad-spectrum antibiotics include ATC = J01A, J01C (except J01CE), J01D, J01E, J01F, J01M, and J01XX05