From population to individuals: a new indicator for evaluating the appropriateness of clinical application of antibiotics

Zheng, Bin; Li, Na; Hu, Zhijian; Liu, Maobai

doi:10.1186/s40360-018-0245-y

Table 1 Antibacterial utilization of inpatients in each department

From: From population to individuals: a new indicator for evaluating the appropriateness of clinical application of antibiotics

Ranking	Department	UR	Department	UD	Department	UD/UR
1	Infectious diseases	100.00%	Infectious diseases	220.00	Hematology	348.04
2	Intensive care unit	88.89%	Respiratory care	170.33	Pediatric hematology	291.12
3	Respiratory care	81.19%	Intensive care unit	136.91	General surgery	249.30
4	Emergency surgery	79.35%	Emergency surgery	136.55	Oncology	224.47
5	Ear–nose–throat	77.50%	Hematology^b	113.67	Infectious diseases	220.00
6	Emergency medicine	72.73%	Emergency medicine	101.52	Respiratory care	209.79
7	Neonatology	71.05%	Cardiac surgery	72.81	Neurology	197.49
8	Cardiac surgery	67.46%	Ear–nose–throat	67.99	Emergency surgery	172.09
9	Gynecology^a	66.78%	Pediatric hematology	65.24	Neurosurgery	162.62
10	geriatrics ^a	65.79%	General surgery^b	64.32	Intensive care unit	154.02
11	Stomatology	64.96%	Stomatology	53.39	Interventional therapy	146.22
12	Urology	59.71%	Nephrology^b	51.59	Pediatrics	143.01
13	Pediatric surgery	57.14%	Hepatobiliary surgery	51.57	Emergency medicine	139.58
14	Hepatobiliary surgery	54.47%	Pediatrics	49.48	Cardiology	136.92
15	Nephrology^b	43.24%	Rheumatology^b	44.7	Thyroid gland surgery	129.55
16	Burns^b	41.67%	Neurology^b	40.88	Rheumatology	124.17
17	Orthopedics	40.91%	Burns^b	40.47	Endocrinology	123.20
18	Gastroenterology	38.92%	Urology	37.62	Nephrology	119.31
19	Rheumatology^b	36.00%	Neurosurgery	35.89	Colorectal surgery	114.77
20	Thoracic surgery	35.58%	Thoracic surgery	34.63	Cardiac surgery	107.93
21	Pediatrics	34.60%	Pediatric surgery	33.52	Breast surgery	103.33
22	Hematology^b	32.66%	geriatrics ^a	31.39	Thoracic surgery	97.33
23	Obstetrics	32.34%	Neonatology	31.06	Burns	97.12
24	Gastrointestinal surgery	30.60%	Colorectal surgery	30.38	Hepatobiliary surgery	94.68
25	Colorectal surgery	26.47%	Gastroenterology	29.78	Ear–nose–throat	87.73
26	General surgery^b	25.80%	Orthopedics	27.71	Traditional Chinese medicine	87.35
27	Radio-oncology	23.57%	Cardiology	26.11	Stomatology	82.19
28	Pediatric hematology	22.41%	Gynecology^a	25.39	Gastrointestinal surgery	81.90
29	Neurosurgery	22.07%	Gastrointestinal surgery	25.06	Gastroenterology	76.52
30	Traditional Chinese medicine	21.74%	Endocrinology	21.19	Orthopedics	67.73
31	Neurology^b	20.70%	Oncology	19.08	Radio-oncology	65.21
32	Cardiology	19.07%	Traditional Chinese medicine	18.99	Urology	63.00
33	Plastic surgery	18.86%	Radio-oncology	15.37	Pediatric surgery	58.66
34	Endocrinology	17.20%	Obstetrics	13.81	Rehabilitation	57.61
35	Day care ward	12.15%	Interventional treatment	8.13	Day care ward	57.37
36	Oncology	8.50%	Plastic surgery	7.88	geriatrics	47.71
37	Rehabilitation	7.69%	Day care ward	6.97	Neonatology	43.72
38	Intervention treatment	5.56%	Thyroid gland surgery	5.48	Obstetrics	42.70
39	Thyroid gland surgery	4.23%	Rehabilitation	4.43	Plastic surgery	41.78
40	Ophthalmology	1.31%	Breast surgery	0.93	Ophthalmology	38.93
41	Breast surgery	0.90%	Ophthalmology	0.51	Gynecology	38.02

^aUD was < 40 DDDs, whereas UR was > 60%
^bUR was < 60%, whereas UD was > 40 DDDs

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