Table 1.

Summary of National Medical Care Survey (NMCS) 2014 dataset

	Public	Private	Overall
Total clinics	129	416	545
Patient encounters	11,172	16,415	27,587
Prescriptionsa	9680	15,119	24,799
Total number of medications	27,762	45,417	73,178
Prescriptions containing antibioticsb	755	5055	5810
Total number of antibiotics (systemic)	767	5242	6009
Antibiotic prescribing ratec, %	6.76	30.79	21.06
Antibiotic per 100 patient encounters	7	32	22

^aEach patient encounter in which medication was prescribed was counted as one prescription

^b197 prescriptions (12 from public clinics, 185 private clinics) consisted of more than one antibiotic

^cPercentage of encounters in which at least one antibiotic was prescribed