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Table 2 Summary of characteristics of clinicians admitting the 1, 160 children (CO = clinical officer, MO = medical officer, paed = paediatrician)

From: Effect of a multi-faceted quality improvement intervention on inappropriate antibiotic use in children with non-bloody diarrhoea admitted to district hospitals in Kenya

Gender

Qualifications

Age group (years)

Experience (years)

Male

134 (43.5%)

CO intern

107 (34.7%)

20-24

56 (18.2%)

< 1

140 (45.5%)

Female

78 (25.3%)

CO

58 (18.8%)

25-29

112 (36.4%)

1-5

37 (12.0%)

Unknown

96 (31.2)

MO

45 (14.6%)

30-34

23 (7.5%)

6-10

12 (3.9%)

  

Paed.

1 (0.3%)

35-39

10 (3.3%)

> 10

8 (2.6%)

  

Unknown

97 (31.5%)

40-44

3 (1.0%)

Unknown

111 (36.0%)

    

45-49

2 (0.7%)

  
    

50-54

1 (0.3%)

  
    

55-59

1 (0.3%)

  
    

Unknown

100 (32.5%)

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