Table 3.
Total number and percentage of antibiotics prescribed for all indications, by ward type and by SARS-CoV-2 result.
| Antibiotics Prescribed on day of survey* | Total number of antibiotics | Percentage of total antibiotics prescribed (%) | Medical and elderly Wards |
Critical care |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SARSCoV-2 positive | SARSCoV-2 negative | SARSCoV-2 positive | SARSCoV-2 negative | |||
| Amoxicillin | 107 | 21.9 | 37 | 65 | 5 | 0 |
| Azithromycin | 5 | 1.0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Aztreonam | 6 | 1.2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Ceftriaxone | 1 | 0.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ciprofloxacin | 13 | 2.7 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
| Clarithromycin | 19 | 3.9 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 1 |
| Co-amoxiclav | 62 | 12.7 | 25 | 27 | 9 | 1 |
| Co-trimoxazole | 12 | 2.5 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Doxycycline | 81 | 16.6 | 45 | 35 | 1 | 0 |
| Flucloxacillin | 16 | 3.3 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 0 |
| Gentamicin | 23 | 4.7 | 10 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| Levofloxacin | 9 | 1.8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Meropenem | 19 | 3.9 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 1 |
| Metronidazole | 25 | 5.1 | 6 | 18 | 0 | 1 |
| Other | 18 | 3.7 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 2 |
| Piperacillin-tazobactam | 33 | 6.7 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 1 |
| Temocillin | 12 | 2.5 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
| Trimethoprim | 8 | 1.6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Vancomycin | 20 | 4.1 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| Total | 489 | 100.0 | 195 | 225 | 62 | 7 |
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Patients may have received more than one antibiotic. The name of one antimicrobial was not recorded for one patient (COVID-19 positive and in critical care) receiving an antibiotic on the day of the survey for a respiratory indication.