Use of antibiotic at medical city teaching hospital

ABSTRACT

55.5% of 1500 randomly selected patients from those admitted to the Medical City Teaching Hospital received one or more antibiotic. The use of antibiotic was more in the surgical service compared to the medical and Ob-Gyn. Services. Although ampicillin was the antimicrobial most widely used but drugs with possible serious side effect such as chloramphenicol are not uncommonly used [10% of patients on antibiotic in the surgical service]. It was judged that the use of antibiotic was justified and both the type dose were proper in only 23.2%. There were differences in the justification of the antibiotic use in the Ob-Gyn, Medical and surgical services [10.6%,42.2% and 18.2% respectively]. Cultures were taken in only 34.8% of patients receiving antibiotic. Some restriction should be implanted to reduce the use of antibiotic and to eliminate or minimize the unjustified use of this group of drugs