Variation in antibiotic prescribing between family practices
| Measure | Centiles of family practices | ||||
| 2.5th | 25th | Median | 75th | 97.5th | |
| AB prescribing rate per 1000 patient-years | 430 | 563 | 648 | 748 | 1038 |
| Acute prescriptions (% of all antibiotic prescriptions) | 76 | 86 | 90 | 93 | 97 |
| Repeat prescriptions (% of all antibiotic prescriptions) | 3 | 7 | 10 | 14 | 24 |
| Coded indication (% of all antibiotic prescriptions) | 10 | 48 | 58 | 65 | 75 |
| Respiratory (% of all antibiotic prescriptions) | 6 | 31 | 36 | 42 | 52 |
| Genitourinary (% of all antibiotic prescriptions) | 1 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 16 |
| Skin (% of all antibiotic prescriptions) | 2 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 16 |
| Other specific (% of all antibiotic prescriptions) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Non-coded indications (% of all antibiotic prescriptions) | 24 | 35 | 42 | 51 | 90 |
| No codes recorded (% of all antibiotic prescriptions) | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 28 |
| Non-specific codes recorded (% of all antibiotic prescriptions) | 12 | 19 | 24 | 29 | 59 |
Column per cents are not expected to sum to 100 as different family practices may be represented for the same centile in different rows.
Figures represent the centiles of the distribution of family practice-specific values.
AB, antibiotic.