A STUDY OF THE APPROPRIATENESS OF ANTIBIOTIC USE IN THE MEDICAL WARDS OF A TERTIARY TEACHING HOSPITAL IN MALAYSIA |
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| Authors: | PY Hooi BSc CM Yong BSc I Cheong FRCP |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Pharmacy, National University of Malaysia;2. Department of Medicine, National University of Malaysia |
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A prospective study was conducted to determine the proportion of patients who received an antibiotic within 12 hours of admission to the medical wards. During the four-week study, 234 patients were admitted to medical wards from casualty; 68 patients (29%) received an antibiotic. The survey indicated that antibiotics were inappropriate in 22–65% of those treated. This study also shows that as many as 67% of patients who received intravenous antibiotics could have been equally well treated with oral preparations. |
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