Diagnosis-linked antibiotic prescribing in Swedish primary care - a comparison between in-hours and out-of-hours

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 3 Antibiotic prescriptions according to the type of infection per 1000 inhabitants per year

	Antibiotic prescriptions per 1000 inhabitants per year
										Average	Mean annual
	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2006–2014	change (95% CI)
All hours
Respiratory tract infections^a	124	135	114	109	111	109	103	85	70	107	−6.5 (−9.0 to − 3.9)
Skin & soft tissue infections	31	32	29	33	30	32	29	30	28	30	−0.3 (−0.7 to 0.1)
Urinary tract infections	44	44	41	44	45	43	40	40	38	42	−0.7 (−1.2 to − 0.1)
Other infections^b	4.5	4.8	4.3	4.4	4.4	4.9	3.9	3.3	3.4	4.2	−0.1 (−0.3 to 0.0)
Without infection diagnosis^c	62	63	60	58	57	57	59	55	55	58	−0.9 (−1.4 to − 0.5)
Total all hours	266	278	248	249	247	246	236	213	194	242	−8.5 (−11.9 to − 5.2)
In-hours
Respiratory tract infections^a	101	109	94	93	95	93	88	73	59	89	−4.8 (−7.1 to −2.5)
Skin & soft tissue infections	26	26	25	29	26	28	26	26	24	26	−0.2 (−0.7 to 0.3)
Urinary tract infections	37	36	34	38	38	37	34	34	32	36	−0.5 (−1.1 to 0.1)
Other infections^b	4.0	4.3	3.9	4.1	4.0	4.4	3.5	3.0	3.2	3.8	−0.1 (−0.2 to 0.0)
Without infection diagnosis^c	55	57	55	55	54	53	55	51	50	54	−0.7 (−1.1 to − 0.3)
Total in-hours	223	233	212	219	217	216	205	186	168	209	−6.3 (−9.6 to −3.0)
Out-of-hours
Respiratory tract infections^a	23	26	21	16	16	16	16	12	11	17	−1.7 (−2.3 to − 1.1)
Skin & soft tissue infections	4.6	5.1	4.1	3.8	3.8	4.0	3.9	3.9	4.0	4.1	−0.1 (−0.2 to 0.0)
Urinary tract infections	7.3	7.6	6.6	5.9	6.1	5.9	6.5	5.6	6.0	6.4	−0.2 (−0.3 to 0.0)
Other infections^b	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.0 (0.0 to 0.0)
Without infection diagnosis^c	7.2	5.9	4.1	3.6	3.3	3.7	4.2	4.4	4.5	4.5	−0.3 (− 0.6 to 0.1)
Total out-of-hours	43	45	36	30	30	30	31	27	26	33	−2.2 (−3.3 to −1.2)

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