Table 3.
Hospital and Patient Indicators for Prescribing Antibiotics for Patients Admitted to AKU-CSH, Aksum, Northern Ethiopia, 2020
| Hospital Indicator | Results | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| Existence of DTC | 1 | 1 |
| Existence of copy of national STGs for tertiary hospitals | 0 | 1 |
| Existence of institutional STGs/clinical guideline for infectious diseases | 0 | 1 |
| Existence of a copy of national FL/EML | 1 | 1 |
| Existence of institutional FL/EML | 0 | 1 |
| Availability of a set of key antibiotics in the hospital in the study period | 65.2% | 100% |
| Average number of days that a set of key antibiotics is out of stock/month | 3.8 | 0 |
| Number of sensitivity tests performed for the prescribed antibiotics | 0 | Exist |
Note: Yes=1, No=0.
Abbreviations: DTC, Drug and Therapeutics Committee; STG, Standard Treatment Guideline; FL/EML, Formulary List/Essential Medicine List.