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.