The real state of antibiotic consumption at an university hospital from 1974 to 1976 was studied by checking all of the prescriptions including antibiotic for oral antibiotics and by counting whole number of ampules and vials of antibiotics used in the hospital for parenteral antibiotics.
The incidence of usage and the total amount of respective antibiotics used was calculated and analyzed according to oral or parenteral antibiotics, inward or out patients, as well as to clinical specificity.
At the same time the whole consumption of antibiotics in Japan during the years was studied and a comparison was made on the trend of antibiotic usage with ours.
It was disclosed clearly that prescriptions for oral antibiotics is most frequently done in the pediatric field and the usage of injectable antibiotics probably for prophylactic purpose is quite high in the surgical fields. Parenteral macrolides antibiotics is not the exception to the latter.
It is easily understood that at any university hospital where inward patients hold much more importance than outpatients do, the consumption of parenteral antibiotics are larger than that of outside hospital.
During this period the consumption of beta-lactam antibiotics increased yearly having become the majority of hospital usage. On the contrary chloramphenicol, tetracyclines and macrolides antibiotics have been losing their importance having turned into minor antibiotics.
The increase of gentamicin and dibekacin in the frequency of and total amount of use was definitely observed contrary to the decrease of antipseudomonal penicillins.
All these trends seemed to be considerably reasonable but some peculiar phenomena like a remarkable increase of fixed dosage antibiotics and a preferable use of parenteral macrolides remained to beexplained.
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