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Table 1 Annual antibiotic consumption (DDD/100 bed-days) summarized across 18 departments in the years 2008–2016

From: Intra-hospital differences in antibiotic use correlate with antimicrobial resistance rate in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae: a retrospective observational study

 

Median

Interquartile range

Total range

Amoxicillin/Ampicillin

2.7

1.2–5.2

0.3–8.4

Amoxicillin-clavulanic acid

19.0

10.0–26.5

6.4–85.3

Ceftriaxone

2.6

2.0–5.3

0.5–8.7

Cefepime

3.9

1.7–5.2

0.1–30.2

Piperacillin-tazobactam

0.9

0.4–1.8

0.0–11.1

Meropenem

1.2

0.3–2.7

0.1–9.8

Quinolones

2.4

1.8–3.5

0.8–15.4

Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole

1.7

1.0–3.2

0.2–13.3

Gentamicin

0.2

0.1–0.5

0.0–2.4