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Table 4.

Prescribed, dispensed and administered doses of the three most frequently used hospital-initiated antibiotics among inpatients, Uganda, 2014

Individual antibiotic	Number of patients	Patient-days (mean)	Overall number of antibiotic doses (median, IQR)
Individual antibiotic	Number of patients	Patient-days (mean)	prescribed	dispensed	administered
Ceftriaxone^a	398	2174 (5.5)	1895 (5, 5–5)	783 (2, 1–3)	1178 (3, 1–3)
Metronidazole^a,b	245	1240 (5.1)	3862 (15, 9–18)	1642 (4, 2–12)	1043 (3, 2–6)
Ciprofloxacin^a	114	666 (5.8)	1130 (10, 10–11)	728 (6, 3–10)	396 (3, 1–4)

^aAdministered doses as a percentage of prescribed doses: ceftriaxone (62%, 1178/1895), metronidazole (27%, 1043/3862) and ciprofloxacin (35%, 396/1130).

^bOverall, 246 patients received metronidazole, but one patient did not have details.