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

Table 1

Perceived importance of the problem of inappropriate antibiotic use, in the United States and in the individual’s practice, by survey responders at University of Colorado, Family Medicine Review, 2012.

Perceived importance of problem	In the United States, number (%) (𝑁=176)*	In practice of survey responder, number (%) (𝑁=176)*
“Very big”	75 (42.6%)	11 (6.25%)
“Big”	83 (47.2%)	67 (38.1%)
“Modest”	18 (10.2%)	87 (49.4%)
“Not a problem”	0 (0%)	11 (6.25%)

^∗𝑃<0.001 comparing responses in the United States to responses in individual practices.