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Comparison of number of general practitioners (GPs) and primary care paediatricians (PPs) expressing a preference for first-line prescribing of amoxicillin or narrow-spectrum penicillins to children with community-acquired pneumonia by European region
Practitioner type Region Northern Europe Eastern Europe Southern Europe Western Europe ≤5-year-olds PP 9 (77.8, 48.0–97.2) 86 (27.9, 18.8–38.7) 323 (66.9, 61.4–72.0) 116 (50.0, 40.6–59.4) GP 61 (93.4, 84.1–98.2) 41 (51.2, 35.1–67.1) 52 (69.2, 54.9–81.3) 50 (88.0, 75.7–95.5) p-value 0.168 0.01 0.737 <0.001 >5-year-olds PP 9 (55.6, 21.2–86.3) 86 (15.1, 8.3–24.5) 323 (30.0, 25.1–35.4) 116 (28.4, 20.5–37.6) GP 60 (88.3, 77.4–95.2) 40 (32.5, 18.6–49.1) 52 (48.1, 34.0–62.4) 50 (82.0, 68.6–91.4) p-value 0.030 0.025 0.01 <0.001 Data are presented as n (%, 95% CI) unless otherwise stated. Northern Europe: Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and the UK; Eastern Europe: Albania, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia; Southern Europe: Cyprus, Spain, Greece, Croatia, Israel, Italy, Montenegro, Malta, Portugal and Slovenia; Western Europe: Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
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Antibiotic preferences for childhood pneumonia vary by physician type and European region
