| Yazarlar |
Prof. Dr. Mustafa Kasım KARAHOCAGİL
Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye |
| Özet |
| Antibiotics are the most frequently used drugs, in our country as in the world, having been wrongly used most of the times. In this study, we aimed to evaluate tendency of antibiotic usage by the means of point prevelance method on three different days of three pursuing weeks in patients hospitalized in all wards of Yüzüncü Yıl University Medical Faculty Research Hospital. Our antibiotic usage rates in our hospital on the days the study was performed were overall 49.7%, 48.1%, 45.8% respectively. The departments that antibiotic usage rates were higher were Anesthesiology Intensive Care Unit (100%) among surgical departments and departments of Pediatrics (65.9%) among internal medical departments. Antibiotics used for treatment mostly were ampicillin-sulbactam, ciprofloxacin, metronidazole and ceftriaxon. Cefazolin, ampicillin-sulbactam, metronidazole and cefotaxim were the most used antibiotics for prophylactic purposes. According to general antibiotic usage criteria, it was established that approximately 42.1% of antibiotics were used inappropriately in our hospitalized patients, and the most important cause of the this usage was unnecessary and long-standing prophylaxis habits of surgical departments. In conclusion, inappropriate antibiotic usage rates in our hospital are high. Especially for preventing inappropriate antibiotic usage for surgical prophylaxis, cooperation with surgical units is necessary and a protocol for surgical prophylaxis should be prepared. Besides, pre and post-graduation education programs which will be held also during the specialty period concerning this topic should be emphasized. |
| Anahtar Kelimeler |
| Makale Türü | Özgün Makale |
| Makale Alt Türü | Uluslararası alan indekslerindeki dergilerde yayımlanan tam makale |
| Dergi Adı | Van Tıp Dergisi |
| Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler | |
| Makale Dili | İngilizce |
| Basım Tarihi | 01-2007 |
| Cilt No | 14 |
| Sayı | 2 |
| Sayfalar | 46 / 51 |
