Table 7 Antibiotic prescribing rates differentiated by age and final diagnosis
| Â | Receiving antibiotics | Â | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total (%) | 0–3 months (%) | 3–6 months (%) | 6–12 months (%) | 1–3 years (%) | 3–6 years (%) | 6–10 years (%) | 10–16 years (%) | p value# | |
All | 32.4 | 27.9 | 24.2 | 24 | 31.9 | 37 | 34.5 | 40.3 | 0.0001 |
Bacterial | 89.6 | 85 | 96.8 | 84.3 | 93 | 89 | 87.7 | 91.9 | 0.3610 |
Viral | 6.6 | 20.8 | 10 | 3.2 | 9.4 | 4 | 2.60 | 5.7 | 0.0001 |
Inflammatory | 14.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.5 | 17.2 | 23.1 | 12.5 | 0.9330 |
Trivial | 10.8 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 9.7 | 8.1 | 20 | 5.3 | 0.0820 |
Unknown | 36.4 | 17.3 | 19.2 | 25.5 | 35.7 | 43.3 | 42.2 | 48.1 | 0.0001 |