Antibiotic prescription for febrile outpatients: a health facility-based secondary data analysis for the Greater Accra region of Ghana

Table 4 Prescriber-patient interactions by antibiotic prescription

Prescriber Characteristic	Antibiotic prescription
	Not prescribed		Prescribed		Total, N = 2519
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Prescriber’s Profession
Medical Doctor	289	38.4	776	43.9	1065	42.3
Physician Assistant	432	57.4	869	49.2	1301	51.6
Nurse prescriber	24	3.2	100	5.7	124	4.9
Other	8	1.1	21	1.2	29	1.2
Total	753	100.0	1766	100.0	2519	100.0
Prescriber’s years of practice
< 3	279	37.7	500	28.7	779	31.4
3–5	284	38.4	652	37.4	936	37.7
6–9	99	13.4	289	16.6	388	15.7
≥ 10	78	10.5	300	17.2	378	15.2
Total	740	100.0	1741	100.0	2481	100.0
Ever trained on IMNCI
Yes	91	12.1	363	20.6	454	18.0
No	662	87.9	1403	79.4	2065	82.0
Total	753	100.0	1766	100.0	2519	100.0

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