Table 2. Antimicrobial use at teaching and nonteaching hospitals in 2010.
Type of hospital | Number of surveyed hospitals | Number of surveyed patients | Antimicrobial use prevalence (%; 95% confidence intervals) | Proportion of antimicrobial use purpose (%) | Proportion of antimicrobial combination therapy use (%) | BCR (%) | ||||
Therapy | Prophylaxis | Both | One | Two | Three or more | |||||
Teaching hospital | 41 | 69815 | 47.96 (47.59–48.33) | 41.17 | 48.02 | 10.81 | 71.41 | 26.25 | 2.34 | 36.40 |
Nonteaching hospital | 206 | 195527 | 46.16 (45.94–46.38) | 51.89 | 37.47 | 10.64 | 67.33 | 30.81 | 1.86 | 34.19 |