A Continuing Medical Education Campaign to Improve Use of Antibiotics in Primary Care

Table 4

Number of practitioners who would likely prescribe an antibiotic to an outpatient with symptoms of acute bronchitis, by presenting symptom or characteristic, among survey responders who had an outpatient practice, Family Medicine Review, 2013 (𝑁=133).

Presenting symptom or characteristic	Number (%) replying they would prescribe an antibiotic
Duration of symptoms for over 21 days	119 (89.5)
Duration of symptoms 15–21 days	112 (84.2)
Age greater than 80 years	93 (69.9)
Duration of symptoms 8–14 days	66 (49.6)
Fever	64 (48.1)
History of asthma (controlled with inhaled steroids)	54 (40.6)
Age 65–80 years	49 (36.8)
Age less than one year	43 (32.3)
Diabetes mellitus (well controlled)	22 (16.5)
Nonadherent patient	19 (14.3)
Expectoration of yellow mucous	18 (13.5)
Duration of symptoms for 7 days	10 (7.5)