Antibiotic prescriptions for inpatients having non-bacterial diagnosis at medicine departments of two private sector hospitals in Madhya Pradesh, India: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To present and compare antibiotic prescribing for inpatients among the most common non-bacterial diagnoses groups at medicine departments of a teaching (TH) and a non-teaching hospital (NTH) in central India.

Setting

An observational cross-sectional study was conducted at two tertiary care settings in Ujjain district, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Data and participants

The data were collected manually, using a customised form. Complete records of all inpatients, who were >15 years of age and had stayed for at least one night in either of the hospitals during 2008-2011, were analysed.

Outcome measures

Inpatients were grouped according to the presence or absence of a bacterial infectious diagnosis, viral/malaria fever or cardiovascular disease. Classes of ant

SUBMITTER: Landstedt K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5775474 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature