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Table 2 Patient characteristics and antibiotic prescription patterns

From: Treatment of urinary tract infections in Swiss primary care: quality and determinants of antibiotic prescribing

 

Total

Uncomplicated UTI

Complicated UTI

P

Patient characteristics

 N

1352

1210

129

 

Sex

 M

69 (5.1)

0 (0)

69 (53.5)

< 0.001

 F

1283 (94.9)

1210 (100)

60 (46.5)

 

Age (mean, (sd))

53.75 (20.83)

53.16 (20.88)

58.75 (19.90)

0.004

Antibiotic therapy

 No AB

103 (7.6)

88 (7.3)

10 (7.8)

 

 One AB

1241 (91.8)

1116 (92.2)

118 (91.5)

0.921

 Two AB

7 (0.5)

5 (0.4)

1 (0.8)

 

  > 2 AB

1 (0.1)

1 (0.1)

0 (0.0)

 

Antibiotic prescription patterns - Recommended first line antibiotics

 Nitrofurantoin

180 (14.4)

163 (14.5)

16 (13.4)

0.855

 Fosfomycin

519 (41.6)

501 (44.7)

17 (14.3)

< 0.001

 TMP / SMX

311 (24.9)

289 (25.8)

18 (15.1)

0.015

Antibiotic prescription patterns - Quinolone antibiotics

 Ciprofloxacin

121 (9.7)

67 (6.0)

53 (44.5)

< 0.001

 Levofloxacin

2 (0.2)

2 (0.2)

0 (0.0)

–

 Moxifloxacin

3 (0.2)

3 (0.3)

0 (0.0)

–

 Norfloxacin

93 (7.4)

84 (7.5)

8 (6.7)

0.906

Antibiotic prescription patterns - others

 Amoxicillin

14 (1.1)

11 (1.0)

3 (2.5)

0.291

 Amoxicillin/Clav

5 (0.4)

4 (0.4)

1 (0.8)

0.975

 Cefuroxim

3 (0.2)

2 (0.2)

1 (0.8)

0.677

 Other*

6 (0.5)

3 (0.3)

3 (2.5)

0.007

  1. N number of patients; M male; f female; sd standard deviation; AB antimicrobial agent; UTI urinary tract infection; TMP/SMX trimethoprim - sulfamethoxazol; Clav clavulanic acid
  2. *: This group consist of ceftriaxon (1), azythromicin (1), metronidazol (2), fluconazol (1), and unknown (1)