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 0Day 7
Not prescribed antibioticsPrescribed antibioticsNot prescribed antibioticsPrescribed antibiotics
Yellow sputum25.624.54.34
Green sputum24.123.93.94
Yellow/green sputum and feeling generally unwell
 Mild23.321.34.33.9
 Moderate24.924.94.54.5
 Severe2829.15.15

  • Data are presented as symptom scores.