TABLE 4.
Antibiotic prescribing pattern by different ward types.
| Hospitals | Number of patient prescribed antibiotics (percentage of patient prescribed antibiotics by ward, %) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical ward | Surgical ward | High risk ward | PICU | Neonatal ward | NICU | |
| C1 | 600 (65.7) | 2 (66.7) | 201 (76.1) | 40 (95.2) | 183 (48.5) | |
| C2 | 362 (76.9) | 62 (63.3) | 13 (56.5) | 138 (63.9) | ||
| C3 | 231 (44.7) | 322 (80.7) | 188 (75.5) | 158 (92.9) | 231 (62.6) | 115 (52.5) |
| C4 | 454 (80.9) | 17 (94.4) | 57 (62.6) | |||
| C5 | 1,359 (68.9) | 378 (58.1) | 240 (59.3) | 60 (76.9) | 166 (52.7) | 106 (76.3) |
| C6 | 378 (78.8) | 52 (67.5) | 2 (33.3) | 20 (62.5) | 175 (57.8) | |
| C7 | 1,089 (51.7) | 484 (48.8) | 171 (77.4) | 188 (74.0) | 396 (65.3) | 110 (53.9) |
| C8 | 152 (70.4) | 12 (35.3) | 41 (69.5) | 14 (25.9) | 22 (32.8) | |
| C10 | 1,962 (72.3) | 602 (80.2) | 297 (53.1) | 54 (88.5) | 267 (78.3) | 153 (85.5) |
| C11 | 472 (81.0) | 134 (87.0) | 50 (49.0) | 19 (63.3) | 60 (58.3) | 104 (48.6) |
| G1 | 207 (70.4) | 50 (68.5) | 43 (78.2) | 29 (72.5) | ||
| G3 | 173 (40.3) | 22 (64.7) | 27 (19.1) | |||
| G5 | 82 (91.1) | 98 (88.3) | ||||
| S1 | 314 (94.3) | 10 (90.9) | ||||
| S3 | 71 (83.5) | 16 (32.7) | ||||
| S4 | 395 (90.4) | 12 (66.7) | 45 (64.3) | |||
| Total | 12,197 (68.1) | 3,278 (65.2) | 1,806 (63.6) | 838 (78.5) | 3,186 (59.7) | 1,022 (59.7) |