Table 3. Prescribed days of drug therapy according to medication of the therapeutic systemic antibacterial subgroup.
| Antimicrobial | Pre-infection period n (%) |
Infection period n (%) |
Post-infection period n (%) |
Full period n (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amikacin | 80 (2.6) | 546 (13.8) | 93 (13.1) | 719 (9.2) |
| Amoxicillin | 99 (3.2) | 71 (1.8) | 8 (1.1) | 178 (2.3) |
| Ampicillin | 28 (0.9) | 22 (0.6) | 14 (2.0) | 64 (0.8) |
| Ampicillin, combinations | 87 (2.8) | 99 (2.5) | 23 (3.2) | 209 (2.7) |
| Azithromycin | 30 (1.0) | 12 (0.3) | - | 42 (0.5) |
| Benzylpenicillin | 1 (0.0) | 1 (0.0) | 3 (0.4) | 5 (0.1) |
| Cefazolin | 75 (2.4) | 32 (0.8) | - | 107 (1.4) |
| Cefepime | 139 (4.4) | 103 (2.6) | 103 (14.5) | 345 (4.4) |
| Ceftazidime | 13 (0.4) | 18 (0.5) | - | 31 (0.4) |
| Ceftriaxone | 192 (6.1) | 99 (2.5) | 14 (2.0) | 305 (3.9) |
| Cefuroxime | 4 (0.1) | 19 (0.5) | - | 23 (0.3) |
| Ciprofloxacin | 74 (2.3) | 38 (1.0) | 6 (0.8) | 118 (1.5) |
| Clindamycin | 168 (5.4) | 48 (1.2) | 1 (0.1) | 217 (2.8) |
| Daptomycin | - | 88 (2.2) | - | 88 (1.1) |
| Ertapenem | - | 50 (1.3) | 14 (2.0) | 64 (0.8) |
| Erythromycin | - | 1 (0.0) | - | 1 (0.0) |
| Gentamicin | 7 (3.1) | 28 (0.7) | 12 (1.7) | 137 (1.8) |
| Imipenem and enzyme inhibitor | 3 (0.1) | 11 (0.3) | - | 14 (0.2) |
| Levofloxacin | 54 (1.7) | 67 (1.7) | 7 (1.0) | 128 (1.6) |
| Linezolid | 78 (2.5) | 30 (0.8) | 21 (3.0) | 129 (1.7) |
| Meropenem | 478 (15.2) | 843 (21.2) | 94 (13.2) | 1,415 (18.1) |
| Metronidazole | 265 (8.5) | 223 (5.6) | 64 (9.0) | 552 (7.1) |
| Nitrofurantoin | - | 12 (0.3) | - | 12 (0.2) |
| Oxacillin | 86 (2.7) | 53 (1.3) | - | 139 (1.8) |
| Piperacillin and enzyme inhibitor | 298 (9.5) | 179 (4.5) | 9 (1.3) | 486 (6.2) |
| Polymyxin B | 117 (3.7) | 437 (11.0) | 77 (10.8) | 631 (8.1) |
| Sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim | 65 (2.1) | 144 (3.6) | 77 (10.8) | 286 (3.7) |
| Teicoplanin | 128 (4.1) | 99 (2.5) | - | 227 (2.9) |
| Tigecycline | - | 83 (2.1) | 3 (0.4) | 86 (1.1) |
| Tobramycin | 13 (0.4) | 5 (0.1) | 3 (0.4) | 21 (0.3) |
| Vancomycin | 463 (14.8) | 507 (12.8) | 65 (9.1) | 1,035 (13.2) |
| Total | 3.135 | 3.968 | 711 | 7.814 |