Table 2.

Physician-Reported Sources of Information About Judicious Antibiotic Prescribing

SourceTotal No (%)Intervention No (%)Control No (%)P Value
AAFP = American Academy of Family Physicians; AAP = American Academy of Pediatrics; CDC = Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Mass = Massachusetts; REACH = REducing Antibiotics in CHildren.
Note: Numbers and percentages vary between items due to differing numbers of missing values.
REACH Mass92 (55)89 (91)3 (4)<.0001
Professional journals154 (92)89 (92)65 (93).64
CDC93 (55)49 (50)44 (63).10
AAP125 (74)67 (68)58 (83).03
Other organizations (primarily AAFP)23 (14)15 (15)8 (11).47
Lay press64 (38)34 (35)30 (43).28
Pharmaceutical companies45 (27)25 (26)20 (29).66
Professional meetings106 (63)63 (64)43 (61).71