Research of Application of Antibiotics in 1268 Inpatients / 药物流行病学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To investigate the use of antibiotics in a hospital to improve the management and proper clinical utilization.Method:A total of 1268 patients discharged from the hospital in April 2007 were surveyed,and a statistical analysis was conducted.Result:The rate of antibiotics usage was 73.50%,and the rate of preventive usage was 52.47%, and the rate of combination usage was 46.14%.The antibiotics most widely used were cephalosporins,quinolones,nitroimidazoles and penicillins.Most antibiotics were used according to experience.And the cost of antibiotics was 22.68%in the total drug expenses of the hospital.New and expensive antibiotics were mainly the drugs in high expenditure.Conclusion:The problems are the higher rate of the application of antibiotics in the hospital,unclear indication for antibiotics usage to some doctors,substandard preventive usage in perioperative period,trend of using more expensive drugs and low rate of checking the pathogen.The results show that it is very important to strengthen the management of antibiotics usage in hospitals.