Antibiotics | No antibiotics | |
Patients | 26 822 | 15 903 |
GP visits | 4.971±4.622 (4.921–5.021) | 7.733±6.233 (7.637–7.830) |
Referrals to community respiratory team | 0.001±0.037 (0.001–0.002) | 0.002±0.043 (0.001–0.002) |
Referrals | 0.091±0.343 (0.087–0.095) | 0.095±0.343 (0.090–0.101) |
Hospitalisations | 0.326±2.091 (0.302–0.350) | 1.138±4.038 (1.032–1.243) |
Antibiotic prescriptions | 0.352±0.627 (0.344–0.359) | 0.353±0.662 (0.343–0.363) |
Infections | 0.073±0.230 (0.696–0.767) | 0.081±0.319 (0.076–0.086) |
Data are presented as mean±sd (95% CI). Interpretation of resource use: for example, for general practice (GP) visits, patients in the “antibiotics” group had 4.97 visits to the GP, on average, compared to 7.73 in the “no antibiotics” group over the base-case period of 4 weeks; hence, the average number of GP visits was higher for the “no antibiotics” group.