Table 2.
Frequency of oral antibiotic prescriptions by facility scale and antibiotic group*
| Antibiotic groups coded by ATC classification† | Number (%) of visits with antibiotic prescription | ||||
| Free-standing clinic | Small-scale hospital (<200 beds)-based clinic |
Medium-scale hospital (200–499 beds)-based clinic | Large-scale hospital (≥500 beds)-based clinic |
All facilities | |
| Penicillins | 25 225 (4.8) | 3453 (4.4) | 2968 (6.6) | 565 (3.9) | 32 211 (4.8) |
| First/second-generation cephalosporins | 6755 (1.3) | 1789 (2.3) | 1245 (2.8) | 158 (1.1) | 9947 (1.5) |
| Third-generation cephalosporins | 187 928 (35.4) | 25 463 (32.4) | 15 252 (33.7) | 4139 (28.8) | 232 782 (34.8) |
| Macrolides | 169 980 (32.0) | 26 307 (33.5) | 11 319 (25.0) | 3833 (26.7) | 211 439 (31.6) |
| Quinolones | 110 770 (20.9) | 17 877 (22.8) | 9992 (22.1) | 3402 (23.7) | 142 041 (21.2) |
| Sulfonamides and trimethoprim | 712 (0.1) | 1069 (1.4) | 2234 (4.9) | 1618 (11.3) | 5633 (0.8) |
| Tetracyclines | 9477 (1.8) | 846 (1.1) | 803 (1.8) | 320 (2.2) | 11 446 (1.7) |
| Other antibiotics | 20 069 (3.8) | 1742 (2.2) | 1458 (3.2) | 318 (2.2) | 23 587 (3.5) |
| All antibiotics | 5 30 916 | 78 546 | 45 271 | 14 353 | 669 086 |
*13 736 patients with antibiotic prescription were excluded due to missing data about facility scale.
†Penicillins, J01C; First-generation cephalosporins, J01DB; Second-generation cephalosporins, J01DC; Third-generation cephalosporins, J01DD; Macrolides, J01FA; Quinolones, J01M; Sulfonamides and trimethoprim, J01E; Tetracyclines, J01A; Other antibiotics, J01B, J01DH, J01DI, J01FF, J01G and J01X.
ATC, anatomical therapeutic chemical.