Table 4.

Among 680.x Cases, Odds Ratios for Procedure, Culture, Prescribed Antibiotics, and Prescribed Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Covering Antibiotics (n = 441)

Variable	Procedures				Cultures				All Antibiotics				MRSA-Covering Antibiotics^*
Variable	Odds Ratio	95% Confidence Limits		p value	Odds Ratio	95% Confidence Limits		p value	Odds Ratio	95% Confidence Limits		p value	Odds Ratio	95% Confidence Limits		p value
Intervention	0.3642	0.1124	1.1796	.0921	0.9354	0.5255	1.665	.8204	2.183	1.4429	3.3026	.0002	2.6241	1.4955	4.6044	.0008
Child or adolescent (age < 18)	3.1741	1.0071	10.0035	.0486	1.9468	0.7196	5.2672	.1896	0.3628	0.1488	0.8846	.0258	1.1417	0.5803	2.2462	.701
Male	2.2339	1.2897	3.8692	.0041	1.8485	1.1097	3.0793	.0183	1.0333	0.6821	1.5651	.8773	1.2734	0.7252	2.236	.4002
Previous case of MRSA	0.7231	0.3465	1.509	.3877	0.5692	0.3235	1.0015	.0506	0.8014	0.4327	1.484	.4812	1.165	0.4693	2.8921	.742
Texas clinics patient	0.3878	0.095	1.5836	.187	0.5563	0.2373	1.304	.1772	2.7345	1.5667	4.7726	.0004	4.2918	2.2836	8.0662	<.0001
Diabetes	2.3839	0.7737	7.3455	.1303	1.2438	0.5756	2.688	.5789	0.5532	0.323	0.9477	.0311	0.9262	0.4455	1.9255	.8373
Specialty: IM vs. FM	0.7122	0.1703	2.9785	.642	2.206	0.5535	8.7918	.2621	0.6585	0.3786	1.1451	.1389	2.762	0.9884	7.7178	.0527
Specialty: Midlevel vs. FM	0.2323	0.0451	1.1957	.0808	8.9855	2.1632	37.3245	.0025	1.6038	0.696	3.6957	.2674	6.6824	2.0818	21.450	.0014
Specialty: Peds vs. FM	0.615	0.1531	2.4702	.4932	2.4239	0.575	10.2187	.2278	2.5667	0.9051	7.2788	.0763	2.4039	0.832	6.7726	.0970

↵* Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, doxycycline or minocycline, clindamycin, Linezolid.
IM, internal medicine; FM, family medicine; Peds, pediatrics.