Adherence to short-term antibiotics
Out of the 589 patients that completed the follow up phone call, 54% (n = 318) were adherent to the short-term antibiotic. The remaining non-adherent patients reported different reasons for not completing their regimen (duration and/or number of daily doses) such as: felt already better (35.3%), forgot to use the medicine (24.2%) and careless to take their medicine (13.8%). All the reasons stated by the participants are presented in 