Assessment of inpatient antibiotic use in Halibet National Referral Hospital using WHO indicators: a retrospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Inappropriate use of antibiotics in primary care and hospital settings is a major contributing factor to the spread of antibiotic resistance. Many microorganisms were tested in Eritrea and have proven resistant to ampicillin. The aim of this study was to investigate the prescription pattern, hospital indicator and patient care indicator of antibiotics among hospitalized patients in Halibet National Referral Hospital, Asmara, Eritrea.

Results

The data on prescription patterns showed 79% of hospitalizations had at least one antibiotic prescribed and on average 1.29 antibiotics were prescribed per hospitalization; prescribing using generic name was at 97%; all (100%) of the antibiotics were prescribed from the Eritrean National List of Medicines. On average an antibio

SUBMITTER: Amaha ND 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6299551 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature