Table 3.

Antibiotic prescribing for emergency department visits by year

Fiscal year	Number of antibiotics	Number of ED visits	Rate of antibiotic use per 1000 visits	Number of visits with antibiotics	Percent of visits with antibiotics	Number of visits with broad-spectrum antibiotics	Percent of antibiotic visits with broad-spectrum antibiotics	Number of broad-spectrum antibiotics	Percentage of antibiotics that were broad-spectrum
2002	843	3530	238.8	710	20.1	454	63.9	506	60.0
2003	810	3275	247.3	699	21.3	444	63.5	474	58.5
2004	927	3577	259.2	793	22.2	452	57.0	497	53.6
2005	1086	3919	277.1	930	23.7	563	60.5	618	56.9
2006	1006	3724	270.1	859	23.1	488	56.8	532	52.8
2007	1215	3909	310.8	1012	25.9	567	56.0	633	52.1
Total	5887	21 934	268.4	5003	22.8	2968	59.3	3260	55.3