Table 1 Counts (> 1%) of antibiotic types prescribed with recent record of selected infections stratified by quintile of prior antibiotic use (CPRD) (multiple types of antibiotics prescribed on the same date were counted separately)
Quintile of prior antibiotic use | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lowest | Low | Middle | High | Highest | |
Amoxicillin | 814,864 (52.5%) | 321,935 (47.6%) | 440,600 (45.0%) | 416,928 (41.8%) | 351,691 (35.1%) |
Phenoxymethylpenicillin | 232,338 (15.0%) | 85,338 (12.6%) | 107,876 (11.0%) | 82,831 (8.3%) | 40,654 (4.1%) |
Trimethoprim | 151,562 (9.8%) | 68,977 (10.2%) | 103,894 (10.6%) | 110,187 (11.1%) | 116,739 (11.6%) |
Erythromycin | 117,147 (7.6%) | 58,666 (8.7%) | 87,729 (9.0%) | 88,363 (8.9%) | 69,914 (7.0%) |
Clarithromycin | 62,377 (4.0%) | 36,836 (5.4%) | 59,371 (6.1%) | 69,151 (6.9%) | 75,576 (7.5%) |
Cefalexin | 51,594 (3.3%) | 30,730 (4.5%) | 51,907 (5.3%) | 64,302 (6.5%) | 90,273 (9.0%) |
Doxycycline | 36,885 (2.4%) | 20,944 (3.1%) | 34,639 (3.5%) | 41,802 (4.2%) | 55,612 (5.5%) |
Nitrofurantoin | 24,476 (1.6%) | 16,431 (2.4%) | 30,105 (3.1%) | 41,386 (4.2%) | 68,578 (6.8%) |
Flucloxacillin | 22,738 (1.5%) | 11,063 (1.6%) | 16,581 (1.7%) | 17,847 (1.8%) | 18,730 (1.9%) |
Ciprofloxacin | 14,853 (1.0%) | 11,451 (1.7%) | 21,166 (2.2%) | 29,869 (3.0%) | 56,727 (5.7%) |
Cefaclor | 7662 (0.5%) | 5000 (0.7%) | 8372 (0.9%) | 10,583 (1.1%) | 13,531 (1.3%) |