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Fig. 4

From: Consecutive antibiotic use in the outpatient setting: an extensive, longitudinal descriptive analysis of antibiotic dispensing data in the Netherlands

Fig. 4

Sankey diagram of all antibiotic switches in the year 2014. Left side: the top-9 initial antibiotics that are followed by a second prescription within an antibiotic treatment episode. Right side: the top-9 antibiotics that are used as second prescription in a switch. The group others on the left side of the figure reflects 10% of the total switches, mainly consisting of pheneticillin (36%), fosfomycin (21%) and cotrimoxazole (14%). The group others on the right side of the figure reflects 14% of second prescriptions in a switch. This group predominantly involves cotrimoxazole (24%), flucloxacillin (17%) clindamycin (16%) and norfloxacin (14%)

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BMC Infectious Diseases

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