Ambulatory antibiotic prescribing for acute bronchitis and cough and hospital admissions for respiratory infections: time trends analysis
Arch G Mainous, III1Sonia Saxena2William J Hueston1Charles J Everett1Azeem Majeed2
1 Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina,
Charleston, South Carolina, USA 2 Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College, London,
UK
Figure 1.Ambulatory visits for acute bronchitis/cough illness receiving
antibiotics as a percentage of all visits for acute bronchitis/cough illness
and hospitalizations for respiratory infections as a percentage of all
hospitalizations. Antibiotics --; hospitalizations --