Physician-Reported Sources of Information About Judicious Antibiotic Prescribing
Source | Total No (%) | Intervention No (%) | Control No (%) | P Value |
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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 Mass | 92 (55) | 89 (91) | 3 (4) | <.0001 |
Professional journals | 154 (92) | 89 (92) | 65 (93) | .64 |
CDC | 93 (55) | 49 (50) | 44 (63) | .10 |
AAP | 125 (74) | 67 (68) | 58 (83) | .03 |
Other organizations (primarily AAFP) | 23 (14) | 15 (15) | 8 (11) | .47 |
Lay press | 64 (38) | 34 (35) | 30 (43) | .28 |
Pharmaceutical companies | 45 (27) | 25 (26) | 20 (29) | .66 |
Professional meetings | 106 (63) | 63 (64) | 43 (61) | .71 |