Table 4 |
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Top 10 antibiotics prescribed by the primary care doctors |
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Antibiotics* |
Number of patients prescribed the antibiotics |
Percentage of patients prescribed the antibiotics |
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Aminopenicillins† |
153 |
16.5% |
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BLBLIs‡ |
130 |
14.0% |
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Clarithromycin |
68 |
7.3% |
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Chloramphenicol |
57 |
6.2% |
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Cefuroxime |
40 |
4.3% |
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Metronidazole |
39 |
4.2% |
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Erthromycin |
37 |
4.0% |
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Levofloxacin |
37 |
4.0% |
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Azithromycin |
36 |
3.9% |
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Ampicillin plus cloxacillin |
35 |
3.8% |
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* These ten antibiotics together account for 68.2% of the total antibiotic use † Including ampicillin and amoxicillin ‡ BLBLI, beta-lactam and beta-lactamase inhibitor combinations including amoxicillin-clavulanate and ampicillin-sulbactam |
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Lam et al. Asia Pacific Family Medicine 2009 8:5 doi:10.1186/1447-056X-8-5 |
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