Table 1 Patients’ characteristics.
From: Prescription pattern analysis for antibiotics in working-age workers diagnosed with common cold
With antibiotics | Without antibiotics | p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|
n (male/female) | 7882/1298 | 8015/1464 | 0.012 |
Age [SD] | 40.2 [9.9] | 42.6 [10.2] | < 0.001 |
Number of beds (%) | |||
500- | 181 [2.0] | 503 [5.3] | < 0.001 |
300–499 | 221 [2.4] | 598 [6.3] | < 0.001 |
200–299 | 119 [1.3] | 263 [2.8] | < 0.001 |
100–199 | 228 [2.5] | 497 [5.2] | < 0.001 |
20–99 | 149 [1.6] | 333 [3.5] | < 0.001 |
0–19 | 8282 [90.2] | 7285 [76.9] | < 0.001 |
Diseases (%) | |||
Neoplasms, C00-D49 | 282 [3.1] | 428 [4.5] | < 0.001 |
Chronic lower respiratory diseases, J40-J47 | 1444 [15.7] | 1322 [14.0] | < 0.001 |
Hypertensive diseases, I10-I15 | 790 [8.6] | 1531 [16.2] | < 0.001 |
Atrial fibrillation and flutter, I48 | 30 [0.3] | 66 [0.7] | < 0.001 |
Disorders of lipoprotein metabolism and other lipidemias, E78 | 901 [9.8] | 1567 [16.5] | < 0.001 |
Inflammatory polyarthropathies, M05-M14 | 230 [2.5] | 370 [3.9] | < 0.001 |
Diabetes mellitus, E10-14 | 442 [4.8] | 848 [9.0] | < 0.001 |
Noninfective enteritis and colitis, K50-K52 | 56 [0.6] | 116 [1.2] | < 0.001 |
