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Table 1 Average quarterly number of antibiotic prescriptions in a tertiary hospital from 2012 to 2016

From: Temporal association between antibiotic use and resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae at a tertiary care hospital

Antibiotics

Annual mean number of antibiotics prescriptions

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitors

68,907

(53,899–80,221)

72,725

(63,235–84,128)

71,561

(68,880–76,537)

63,638

(27,371–80,928)

68,512

(64,378–71,719)

Third-generation cephalosporins

63,304

(60,238–70,514)

64,784

(60,468–67,074)

51,578

(44,996–54,267)

39,007

(22,789–46,250)

45,999

(44,346–47,384)

Fluoroquinolones

29,300

(26,233–33,663)

31,621

(28,920–35,297)

27,582

(21,069–35,286)

25,900

(12,324–32,129)

28,195

(19,737–35,368)

  1. Data indicate mean number of prescriptions (Min–Max)