Table 2. Overall themes and subthemes
ThemeSubthemes
Impaired diagnostic capacity1.1 Influence on diagnostic certainty
1.2 Patient familiarity impacted diagnostic confidence
Strategies to improve diagnostic acuity2.1 Patient self-examination
2.2 Visual cues
2.3 Practitioner skills
Management of clinical uncertainty3.1 Refer for in-person assessment
3.2 Overinvestigate
3.3 Overtreat
Changes to antibiotic prescription decision-making4.1 Mixed effect on decision-making
4.2 Delayed prescribing
4.3 Patient demand for antibiotics
Perceptions about other GPs’ antibiotic prescribing
Supervisor beliefs about their registrars