Analysis of antibiotics prescriptions in emergency department of our hospital

Objective To realize the application of antibiotics prescription in emergency department of our hospital for improving the management and proper clinical application. Methods Six hundred and one prescriptions of emergency department of September 2012 were chosen to be analyzed, antibiotics prescriptions were classified and analyzed. Results The rate of antibiotics prescriptions was 32%. In the 194 antibiotics prescriptions, 64 were irrational antibiotic prescriptions, accounting for 33%. Both oral antibiotics prescriptions and antibiotics injection prescriptions accounted for 42% of all the antibiotics prescriptions. Prescriptions included one antibiotics accounted for 75%, two bivalent antibiotic prescriptions accounted for 25%. Antibiotic prescriptions were the most frequent used in pediatrics accounted for 54%. In different types of antibiotics, the cephalosporins were the most frequently applied in emergency accounted for 89%. Conclusion The use of antibiotics in emergency has some problems. It's impotant to strengthen the education and management of antibiotics usage.