Tab. I.
Pattern of administration of antibiotics and indications of treatment in the surveyed patients during the PPS, 2011.
| Indication of treatment | Treated patients (n. 159) |
Number of antimicrobials used | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | > 1 | |||||
| n* | %** | n≠ | %1 | n≠ | %1 | |
| Medical prophylaxis | 27 | 16.9% | 18 | 66.6% | 9 | 33.4% |
| Surgical prophylaxis | 59 | 37.1% | 42 | 71.2% | 17 | 28.8% |
| Community infection | 58 | 36.5% | 36 | 62.1% | 22 | 37.9% |
| Healthcare-associated infection | 12 | 7.5% | 2 | 16.6% | 10 | 83.4% |
| Long-term hospital-acquired infection | 3 | 2.0% | – | – | 3 | 100.0% |
ECDC: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
*
Total of patients treated for relative indication.
**
Percent of the total.
≠
Patients receiving the indicated number of antimicrobial agents for each indication of treatment.
1
Percent each within category.