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

Table 5 Crude and adjusted logistic regression of factors associated with antibiotic prescribing

	Crude OR (95% CI)	p-value	Adjusted OR (95% CI)	p-value
Prescriber’s Profession (Ref: Medical Doctor)		0.001***		0.029*
Physician Assistant	0.75 (0.60, 0.94)		0.83 (0.58, 1.20)
Nurse Prescriber	1.55 (1.06, 2.27)		1.30 (0.70,2.41)
Other	0.98 (0.44, 2.19)		8.33 (1.32, 52.41)
Prescriber’s years of practice (Ref: < 3)		< 0.001***		< 0.001***
3–5	1.28 (0.98, 1.67)		1.12 (0.84, 1.48)
6–9	1.63 (1.15, 2.31)		2.97 (1.99, 4.44)
≥ 10	2.15 (1.50, 3.06)		1.60 (1.12, 2.27)
Prescriber ever trained on IMNCI (Ref: No)		< 0.001***		< 0.001***
Yes	1.88 (1.38, 2.56)		2.33 (1.54, 3.53)
Municipality (Ref: Ga South)		< 0.001***		< 0.001***
La Dade Kotopon	0.64 (0.49, 0.84)		0.16 (0.09, 0.27)
La Nkwantanang Madina	1.17 (0.89, 1.54)		0.88 (0.56, 1.40)
Sex of patient (Ref: Male)		0.235		0.627
Female	0.90 (0.77, 1.07)		1.05 (0.87, 1.27)
Age of patient in years (Ref: < 5)		< 0.001***		< 0.001***
≥ 5	0.28 (0.23, 0.34)		0.40 (0.32, 0.51)

P < 0.05*, p < 0.01**, p < 0.001***, significance levels; CI Confidence Interval, OR Odds ratio, Ref Reference.

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