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Codea Gender Age, years Years of experience ortraining term (T) SEIFAb Sessions per week S1 F 30–34 <5 years 5 6 S2 M 40–44 5–10 years 2 9 S3 F 50–54 >20 years 4 4–5 S4 F 35–39 5–10 years 5 7–9 S5 F 35–39 5–10 years 4 6–7 S6 F 40–44 11–20 years 3 9 S7 F 35–39 5–10 years 2 8 S8 M 30–34 <5 years 4 8 S9 F 30–34 5–10 years 1 11 R1 F 25–29 T3 1 8 R2 M 45–49 T4 5 8 R3 F 25–29 T3 2 9 R4 M 25–29 T1 2 9 R5 F 25–29 T1 4 6 R6 F 30–34 T1 5 10 R7 F 25–29 T3 3 4 R8 M 25–29 T1 1 8 R9 F 25–29 T3 5 4 SEIFA = Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas.
aS = Supervisor. R = Registrar. bUses the Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (IRSD), where 1 indicates high socioeconomic disadvantage.
Theme Subthemes Impaired diagnostic capacity 1.1 Influence on diagnostic certainty
1.2 Patient familiarity impacted diagnostic confidenceStrategies to improve diagnostic acuity 2.1 Patient self-examination
2.2 Visual cues
2.3 Practitioner skillsManagement of clinical uncertainty 3.1 Refer for in-person assessment
3.2 Overinvestigate
3.3 OvertreatChanges to antibiotic prescription decision-making 4.1 Mixed effect on decision-making
4.2 Delayed prescribing
4.3 Patient demand for antibioticsPerceptions about other GPs’ antibiotic prescribing Supervisor beliefs about their registrars







