Table 3.

Hospital and patient indicators for prescribing antibiotics for patients admitted to DTCSH, Debre Tabor, Northwest Ethiopia, 2021.

Hospital indicator	Results	Recommended
Existence of DTC *	Yes	Yes
Existence of a copy of the national STGs # for hospitals	Yes	Yes
Existence of institutional STGs/clinical guidelines for infectious diseases	No	Yes
Existence of a copy of the national FL/EML **	No	Yes
Existence of institutional FL/EML	No	Yes
The availability of a set of key antibiotics in the hospital during the study period	67.5%	100%
The average number of days that a set of key antibiotics is out of stock per month	5.1	0
Number of sensitivity tests performed for the prescribed antibiotics	No	Yes

DTC: Drug and Therapeutic Committee; EML: essential medicines list.

^*Drug and Therapeutics Committee; ^#Standard Treatment Guideline; ^**Formulary List/Essential Medicine List.