Table 1 General characteristics of admitted patients aged > 28 days to 15 years from January–December 2015
From: Antibiotic use on paediatric inpatients in a teaching hospital in the Gambia, a retrospective study
Variable | Categories | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
Total admissions | n = 917, % | |
Age | Under 5 | 630, 68.7% |
Over 5 | 287, 31.3% | |
Patients treated with antibiotic | n = 496, % | |
Sex | Male | 302, 61.1% |
Female | 192, 38.9% | |
Type of clinical diagnosis* | Infectious disease diagnosis | 398, 80.2% |
Non-infectious disease diagnosis | 300, 60.5% | |
Both Infectious disease and non-infectious disease diagnosis | 202, 40.7% | |
Age | Under 5 | 366, 73.8% |
Over 5 | 130, 26.2% | |
Length of hospital stay | <=7 days | 264, 53.2% |
8–14 days | 150, 30.2% | |
> 14 days | 82, 16.5% | |
Duration of antibiotic treatment | <=7 days | 361, 72.8% |
7–14 days | 100, 20.2% | |
> 14 days | 35, 7.1% |