Table 1 The characteristics of participating hospitals and antibiotic prescribing for neonates from 2017 to 2019
Hospital code | Level | Province | Region | District | Total patients | Patients prescribed antibiotics | Rates of antibiotic therapy (%) | No. of antibiotic prescriptions | No. of antibiotic prescriptions per patient |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
H1 | Tertiary | Chongqing | Southwest | Provincial | 378 | 272 | 72.0 | 372 | 1.4 |
H2 | Tertiary | Zhejiang | East | Provincial | 523 | 282 | 53.9 | 336 | 1.2 |
H3 | Tertiary | Shandong | East | Provincial | 358 | 247 | 69.0 | 307 | 1.2 |
H4 | Tertiary | Zhejiang | East | Municipal | 246 | 123 | 50.0 | 177 | 1.4 |
H5 | Tertiary | Beijing | North | National | 104 | 88 | 84.6 | 121 | 1.4 |
H6 | Tertiary | Guangdong | South | Municipal | 249 | 94 | 37.8 | 112 | 1.2 |
H7 | Tertiary | Shaanxi | Northwest | Provincial | 146 | 102 | 69.9 | 111 | 1.1 |
H8 | Tertiary | Beijing | North | Provincial | 97 | 67 | 69.1 | 79 | 1.2 |
H9 | Tertiary | Beijing | North | Provincial | 54 | 42 | 77.8 | 71 | 1.7 |
H10 | Tertiary | Shanghai | East | National | 82 | 47 | 57.3 | 70 | 1.5 |
H11 | Tertiary | Guangdong | South | Provincial | 166 | 49 | 29.5 | 55 | 1.1 |
H12 | Tertiary | Tianjin | North | Provincial | 44 | 38 | 86.4 | 48 | 1.3 |
H13 | Tertiary | Guangdong | South | District | 119 | 26 | 21.8 | 36 | 1.4 |
H14 | Tertiary | Heilongjiang | Northeast | Provincial | 73 | 27 | 37.0 | 32 | 1.2 |
H15 | Tertiary | Shandong | East | Provincial | 35 | 16 | 45.7 | 16 | 1.0 |
2674 | 1520 | 56.8 | 1943 | 1.3 |