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Table 2 Antibiotic prescribing rates per STAR-PU for the intervention and control groups in the broad-spectrum letter vs control letter trial

From: Using text and charts to provide social norm feedback to general practices with high overall and high broad-spectrum antibiotic prescribing: a series of national randomised controlled trials

 

Total items per STAR-PU

Total broad spectrum per STAR-PU

% broad spectrum per STAR-PU

Control, M (SD) [n]

Intervention, M (SD) [n]

Control, M (SD) [n]

Intervention, M (SD) [n]

Control, M (SD) [n]

Intervention, M (SD) [n]

November 2018

0.106 (0.06) [191]

0.106 (0.04) [198]

0.014 (0.04) [185]

0.010 (0.01) [190]

0.0001 (0.0002) [183]

0.0001 (0.0003) [190]

December 2018

0.106 (0.03) [190]

0.110 (0.05) [197]

0.012(0.02) [184]

0.009 (0.01) [190]

0.0001 (0.0004) [183]

0.0001 (0.0002) [190]

January 2019

0.118 (0.03) [190]

0.119 (0.02) [196]

0.013 (0.04) [185]

0.010 (0.01) [189]

0.0001 (0.0004) [183]

0.0001 (0.0003) [189]

February 2019

0.101 (0.03) [189]

0.100 (0.02) [195]

0.016 (0.07) [182]

0.009 (0.01) [188]

0.0001 (0.0004) [181]

0.0001 (0.0002) [188]

March 2019

0.098 (0.02) [188]

0.102 (0.05) [196]

0.011 (0.02) [180]

0.010 (0.01) [187]

0.0001 (0.0004) [180]

0.0001 (0.0004) [187]

April 2019

0.093(0.04) [186]

0.091 (0.02) [193]

0.012 (0.04) [179]

0.008 (0.01) [186]

0.0001 (0.0003) [179]

0.0001 (0.0003) [185]

  1. Number of practices with data for each dependent variable and month are shown in square brackets