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Table 2 Inappropriate prescribinga during respiratory infection visits

From: Inappropriate prescribing in outpatient healthcare: an evaluation of respiratory infection visits among veterans in teaching versus non-teaching primary care clinics

Ā 

Fleming-Dutra et al.b

VA clinics total

VA teaching clinics

VA non-teaching clinics

Sinusitis

150/1748 (8.6)

78/357 (21.8)

0/63 (0)

78/294 (69.1)

Pharyngitis

613/1172 (52.3)

79/244 (32.4)

2/53 (3.8)

77/191 (40.3)

Bronchitis

748/1014 (73.8)

431/696 (61.9)

55/168 (32.7)

376/528 (71.2)

Pneumonia

0/478 (0)

0/233 (0)

0/40 (0)

0/193 (0)

Total

1511/4412 (34.2)

588/1530(38.4)

57/324 (17.6)

531/1206 (44.0)

  1. All data as no. (%)
  2. VA veterans affairs
  3. aFleming-Dutra et al. inappropriate prescribing definitions
  4. bUnweighted sample data among age ā‰„20