TABLE 1.
Prevalence of antibiotic use among randomly selected patients in 183 acute care hospitals — Emerging Infections Program health-care–associated infections and antimicrobial use prevalence survey, United States, 2011
| Antibiotic use assessment | No. | (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Total no. of patients in the survey | 11,282 | — |
| Patients on any antibiotic to treat an active infection | 4,189 | (37.1) |
| Treatment indication for antibiotic* | 7,199 | — |
| For LRI (community onset), with or without BSI | 1,596 | (22.2) |
| For UTI (health-care or community onset), with or without BSI | 993 | (13.8) |
| For presumptive resistant Gram-positive infection treated with vancomycin (intravenous), linezolid, or daptomycin | 1,270 | (17.6) |
| No. of antibiotics with one or more treatment indications above | 3,592 | (49.9) |
Abbreviations: LRI = lower respiratory tract infection; BSI = bloodstream infection; UTI = urinary tract infection.
*
Indications are not mutually exclusive.