Table 1: Outpatient antibiotic prescriptions to Ontario residents aged 65 years or more by family physicians and specialists in 2006 and 2015
ProviderNo. (%) of individual claims; yearNo. (%) of defined daily doses; year
2006
n = 255 244
2015
n = 325 981
2006
n = 2 956 917
2015
n = 3 536 835
Family physician195 745 (76.7)227 569 (69.8)2 230 258 (75.4)2 409 323 (68.1)
Specialist59 499 (23.3)98 412 (30.2)726 659 (24.6)1 127 512 (31.9)