Abstract
In this study, based on the prescriptions written during June 1 to 30 of 1978, 1979 and 1980 at Miyazaki Medical College Hospital, quantitative studies were carried out on various antibiotics used orally or intravenously at different medical departments. The following results were obtained:
1) Cephalosporins and penicillins were the most frequently used antibiotics accounting for 90% of the total amount of antibiotics used. 2) The amount of use of cephalosporins and penicillins was large in surgery as well as in internal medicine, while aminoglycosides were used remarkably in surgery. However, macrolides and tetracyclines were scarcely used in surgery. 3) Injections were more frequently used than oral dosage forms in case of cephalosporins, penicillins and aminoglycosides. But macrolides and tetracyclines in oral forms were used more often than in injections. 4) Sulbenicillin, cephalexin, kanamycin, erythromycin and minocycline were used most frequently among penicillins, cephalosporins, aminoglycosides, maclorides and tetracyclines, respectively.
