Table 3 Median duration of hospital stay and antibiotic treatment together with information about DDDs prescribed; by departments in a Teaching and a Non-teaching hospital in Ujjain district, India
Teaching hospital | Non-teaching hospital | ||||||||||||
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Department (n = number of antibiotic patients) | Median duration of hospital stay n (range) | Median duration of antibiotic treatment for antibiotic patients n (range) | Total DDDs used | DDD/antibiotic patients | Total days of antibiotic therapy | DDD/day in hospital | Department (n = number of antibiotic patients) | Median duration of hospital stay n (range) | Median duration of antibiotic treatment for antibiotic patients n (range) | Total DDDs used | DDD/antibiotic patients | Total days of antibiotic therapy | DDD/day in hospital |
Pediatric (n = 109) | 7 (1–25) | 5 (1–26) | 624 | 6 | 684 | 0.9 | Pediatric (n = 531) | 3 (1–43) | 4 (1–44) | 2554 | 5 | 3124 | 0.8 |
NICU (n = 11) | 7 (1–12) | 5 (1–10) | 6.3 | 0.6 | 53 | 0.1 | NICU (n = 199) | 5 (1–42) | 6 (1–37) | 257 | 1 | 1672 | 0.2 |
Medicine (n = 476) | 4 (1–56) | 4 (1–56) | 3474 | 7 | 2513 | 1.4 | Medicine (n = 1187) | 3 (1–34) | 3 (1–35) | 10074 | 9 | 6089 | 1.7 |
Ob-Gy (n = 194) | 6 (1–63) | 4 (1–55) | 1667 | 9 | 1179 | 1.4 | Ob-Gy (n = 343) | 4 (1–16) | 4 (1–15) | 2250 | 7 | 2139 | 1.1 |
Surgery (n = 654) | 8 (1–88) | 7 (1–89) | 6911 | 11 | 5799 | 1.2 | Surgery (n = 835) | 3 (1–30) | 3 (1–31) | 8203 | 10 | 4577 | 1.8 |
Orthopedics (n = 188) | 10 (1–69) | 10 (1–63) | 2963 | 12 | 2308 | 1.3 | Orthopedics (n = 228) | 5 (1–137) | 5 (1–17) | 1871 | 8 | 1857 | 1.0 |
ENT (n = 187) | 8 (1–38) | 8 (1–32) | 1404 | 8 | 1653 | 0.8 | ENT (n = 45) | 3 (1–9) | 4 (1–8) | 339 | 8 | 194 | 1.7 |
Ophthalmology (n = 148) | 5 (1–21) | 7 (1–13) | 904 | 6 | 883 | 1.0 | Ophthalmology (n = 6) | 3 (1–18) | 2.5 (1–8) | 115 | 19 | 32 | 3.6 |
Pulmonary Medicine (n = 220) | 7 (1–50) | 8 (1–50) | 4923 | 22 | 3131 | 1.6 | Pulmonary Medicine (n = 22) | 3 (1–17) | 4 (1–11) | 253 | 12 | 155 | 1.6 |
ICU (n = 91) | 3 (1–34) | 3 (1–18) | 628 | 7 | 419 | 1.5 | ICU (n = 298) | 2 (1–33) | 3 (1–20) | 2294 | 8 | 1261 | 1.8 |
Casualty (n = 181) | 3 (1–140) | 3 (1–48) | 959 | 5 | 986 | 1.0 | Casualty (n = 0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Private (n = 0) | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Private (n = 567) | 3 (1–42) | 3 (1–16) | 4332 | 8 | 2856 | 1.5 |
Total | 6 (1–140) | 6 (1–89) | 24465 | 10 | 19608 | 1.2 | Total | 3 (1–137) | 4 (1–62) | 32542 | 8 | 23956 | 1.4 |