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Table 1 Rates of prescribing during respiratory infection visits

From: Inappropriate prescribing in outpatient healthcare: an evaluation of respiratory infection visits among veterans in teaching versus non-teaching primary care clinics

Ā 

Fleming-Dutra et al.a

VA clinics total

VA teaching clinics

VA non-teaching clinics

Sinusitis

1206/1748 (69.0)

294/357 (82.4)

38/63 (60.3)

256/294 (87.1)

Pharyngitis

824/1172 (70.3)

123/244 (50.4)

12/53 (22.6)

111/191 (58.1)

Bronchitis

748/1014 (73.8)

431/696 (61.9)

55/168 (32.7)

376/528 (71.2)

Pneumonia

324/478 (67.8)

67/233 (28.8)

15/40 (37.5)

52/193 (26.9)

Total

3102/4412 (70.3)

915/1530(59.8)

120/324 (37.0)

795/1206 (65.9)

  1. All data as no. (%)
  2. VA veterans affairs
  3. aUnweighted sample data among age ā‰„20