Overview of practices and patients for a study of antimicrobial prescribing for urinary tract infection
Characteristic | Study arm; mean ± SD* | ||
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Intervention arm A | Intervention arm B | Control | |
Practice | |||
No. of GPs, median FTE (range) | 2.3 (1.0–5.5) | 2.0 (1.0–5.0) | 2.0 (1.0–4.5) |
Time in practice, yr | 18.7 ± 12.5 | 14.8 ± 11.4 | 16.9 ± 8.8 |
No. of practice contacts per yr | 14 810 ± 10 169 | 15 464 ± 12 950 | 12 820 ± 7 661 |
No. of antimicrobial prescriptions per 100 practice contacts | 14.1 ± 4.6 | 11.0 ± 4.8 | 12.2 ± 4.1 |
Study | |||
No. of UTI consultations | |||
Baseline (before intervention†) | 381 | 309 | 360 |
During intervention† | 743 | 738 | 783 |
Subtotal, baseline + intervention† | 1124 | 1047 | 1143 |
Follow-up | 211 | 241 | 441 |
Repeat consultations (intervention†) | 18 | 14 | 36 |
During intervention period | |||
No. (%) of consultations with urine samples | 350 (47.1) | 380 (51.5) | 377 (48.1) |
No. (%) of samples with growth | 231 (66.0) | 248 (65.3) | 239 (63.4) |
Consultations (by practice) | |||
Age of patients, yr | 56.3 ± 3.3 | 51.5 ± 11.4 | 54.1 ± 7.7 |
Sex of patients, % male | 12.0 ± 6.6 | 12.4 ± 7.8 | 8.3 ± 5.6 |
% of patients with medical card | 68.1 ± 14.4 | 62.1 ± 17.5 | 55.3 ± 18.8 |