Prescribing practice | Physicians | Pharmacists | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pre-intervention (n = 237) | Post-intervention (n = 289) | Pre-intervention (n = 483) | Post-intervention (n = 596) | |||||
N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |
Prescribing antibiotics (pharmacists only) | ||||||||
 Prescribe antibiotics |  |  |  |  | 404 | 83.6 | 344 | 57.7 |
 Recommend antibiotics |  |  |  |  | 279 | 57.8 | 148 | 24.8 |
Prescribing frequency | ||||||||
 Common cold | ||||||||
  Most times | 22 | 9.3 | 6 | 2.1 | 44 | 9.1 | 17 | 2.9 |
  Sometimes | 128 | 54.0 | 97 | 33.6 | 282 | 58.4 | 150 | 25.2 |
  Never | 84 | 35.4 | 186 | 64.4 | 78 | 16.1 | 177 | 29.7 |
 Bronchitis (physicians only) | ||||||||
  Most times | 156 | 65.8 | 82 | 28.4 |  |  |  |  |
  Sometimes | 71 | 30.0 | 179 | 61.9 |  |  |  |  |
  Never | 6 | 2.5 | 25 | 8.7 |  |  |  |  |
 Sinusitis (physicians only) | ||||||||
  Most times | 103 | 43.5 | 49 | 17.0 |  |  |  |  |
  Sometimes | 117 | 49.4 | 183 | 63.3 |  |  |  |  |
  Never | 12 | 5.1 | 52 | 18.0 |  |  |  |  |