Table 1.
Antibiotic use in pre-COVID and pandemic years expressed in different outcome measures.
| Years | DDDs * | DDD/1000 Inhabitants/Day (DID) |
DDD/ 100 Patient-Days (DHPD) |
DDD/ Discharge |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-COVID years | 2010 | 4,363,348 | 1.19 | 21.97 | 1.77 |
| 2011 | 3,838,936 | 1.05 | 19.45 | 1.54 | |
| 2012 | 3,947,868 | 1.09 | 20.61 | 1.66 | |
| 2013 | 3,866,325 | 1.07 | 20.14 | 1.61 | |
| 2014 | 4,019,441 | 1.11 | 20.96 | 1.66 | |
| 2015 | 4,016,330 | 1.12 | 21.53 | 1.68 | |
| 2016 | 3,796,523 | 1.06 | 20.33 | 1.59 | |
| 2017 | 4,005,607 | 1.12 | 22.01 | 1.75 | |
| 2018 | 3,997,055 | 1.12 | 22.16 | 1.76 | |
| 2019 | 4,142,182 | 1.16 | 23.33 | 1.83 | |
| Pandemic years | 2020 | 4,308,489 | 1.21 | 32.19 | 2.45 |
| 2021 | 3,989,643 | 1.12 | 33.65 | 2.42 |
* DDD: Defined Daily Doses.