From: Antibiotic prescribing to inpatients in Limpopo, South Africa: a multicentre point-prevalence survey
Hospital | Total patients admitted | Number of patients on antibiotics | Medical | Surgical | Intensive care unit | P-value | Cramér’s V | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Admitted | Antibiotic use | Admitted | Antibiotic use | Admitted | Antibiotic use | ||||||||
N | n | N | n | % | N | n | % | N | n | % | |||
Hospital A | 111 | 39 | 39 | 18 | 46.2 | 68 | 17 | 25.0 | 4 | 4 | 100.0 | 0.002 | 0.336 |
Hospital B | 205 | 66 | 103 | 15 | 14.6 | 89 | 40 | 44.9 | 13 | 11 | 84.6 | 0.000 | 0.429 |
Hospital C | 119 | 47 | 58 | 28 | 48.3 | 54 | 17 | 31.5 | 7 | 2 | 28.6 | 0.159 | 0.176 |
Hospital D | 210 | 63 | 114 | 33 | 23.9 | 80 | 18 | 22.5 | 16 | 12 | 75.0 | 0.000 | 0.290 |
Hospital E | 159 | 46 | 70 | 26 | 37.1 | 78 | 13 | 16.7 | 11 | 7 | 63.6 | 0.001 | 0.301 |
Total | 804 | 261 | 384 | 120 | 31.3 | 369 | 105 | 28.5 | 51 | 35 | 68.6 | 0.000 | 0.204 |