Figures
- Figure 1–
Patient flowchart. CRF: case report form.
- Figure 2–
Estimated patient-recorded scaled symptom severity scores over 28 days after presentation for the subgroups of adult patients with acute cough from the three-level hierarchical autoregressive part and a moving average model. AB: antibiotic.
Tables
- Table 1– Comparison of responders and nonresponders to the diary on key patient characteristics
Responders Nonresponders Males 973 (36) 255 (38) Age yrs 47 (35–60) 36 (27–48) Temperature °C 36.8 (36.4–37.2) 36.7 (36.2–37.1) Total clinician-recorded symptom severity score 26 (22–31) 27 (23–32) Antibiotic prescription 1464 (54) 312 (46) Comorbidity Respiratory 395 (15) 120 (18) Diabetes 126 (5) 12 (2) Cardiovascular 240 (9) 26 (4) Discoloured sputum 1223 (45) 321 (47) Yellow 689 (26) 150 (22) Green 498 (19) 159 (23) Blood-stained 36 (1) 12 (2) Feeling generally unwell No problem 557 (21) 151 (22) Mild problem 803 (30) 146 (22) Moderate problem 1036 (39) 273 (40) Severe problem 281 (10) 90 (13) Patients 2690 678 Data are presented as n, n (%) or median (interquartile range).
- Table 2– Estimated patient recorded symptom scores (from patient diary data) for days 0 and 7 for subgroups of adult patients with acute cough stratified by whether they were prescribed antibiotics or not (from the three-level hierarchical autoregressive part and a moving average model)
Day 0 Day 7 Not prescribed antibiotics Prescribed antibiotics Not prescribed antibiotics Prescribed antibiotics Yellow sputum 25.6 24.5 4.3 4 Green sputum 24.1 23.9 3.9 4 Yellow/green sputum and feeling generally unwell Mild 23.3 21.3 4.3 3.9 Moderate 24.9 24.9 4.5 4.5 Severe 28 29.1 5.1 5 Data are presented as symptom scores.
Supplementary material
Files in this Data Supplement:
- Online table 2 - Patient reported symptom score severity at baseline (day 0) and patient reported symptom score resolution over time in subgroups of adult patient with acute cough and its association with antibiotic treatment, both unadjusted and adjusted
- Online table 1 - Characteristics and antibiotic treatment of patients with acute cough by network
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Antibiotic prescribing for discoloured sputum in acute cough/lower respiratory tract infection
