Table 1.
Facility and patient level descriptive characteristics by antibiotic prescription
| Antibiotic prescription | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not Prescribed | Prescribed | Total, N = 2519 | ||||
| N | %a | n | %b | n | %c | |
| Municipality | ||||||
| Ga South (N = 811) | ||||||
| Ga South Municipal Hospital | 148 | 74.7 | 430 | 70.1 | 578 | 71.3 |
| Ngleshie Amanfrom Health Centre | 50 | 25.3 | 183 | 29.9 | 233 | 28.7 |
| La Dade Kotopon (N = 802) | ||||||
| La General Hospital | 78 | 35.5 | 215 | 36.9 | 293 | 36.5 |
| Police Hospital | 142 | 64.5 | 367 | 63.1 | 509 | 63.5 |
| La Nkwantanang Madina (N = 906) | ||||||
| Kekele Polyclinic | 145 | 43.3 | 71 | 12.4 | 216 | 23.8 |
| Pentecost Hospital | 190 | 56.7 | 500 | 87.6 | 690 | 76.2 |
| Patient age-group | ||||||
| < 5 | 186 | 24.7 | 963 | 54.5 | 1149 | 45.6 |
| ≥ 5 | 552 | 73.3 | 788 | 44.6 | 1340 | 53.2 |
| Unknown | 15 | 2.0 | 15 | 0.9 | 30 | 1.2 |
| Sex | ||||||
| Male | 343 | 45.6 | 848 | 48.0 | 1191 | 47.3 |
| Female | 410 | 54.4 | 917 | 51.9 | 1327 | 52.7 |
| Client on NHIS | ||||||
| Yes | 426 | 56.6 | 1026 | 58.1 | 1452 | 57.6 |
| No | 327 | 43.4 | 740 | 41.9 | 1067 | 42.4 |
ABBREVIATION: NHIS National Health Insurance Scheme; a: Proportion of those who received antibiotics; b: Proportion of those who did not receive antibiotics; c: proportion based on total number seen at the municipal facility