Three-Year Point Prevalence Survey of Antimicrobial Use in a Chinese University Hospital

Table 2

Use of antimicrobial in PPS days.

Time	Number of patients	Antibiotic use rate	Single	Duplex	Triplicate	Number of prescriptions
2018-Oct	409	145 (35.5%)	97 (66.9%)	45 (31.0%)	3 (2.1%)	196
2019-Nov	117	65 (55.6%)	52 (80.0%)	12 (18.5%)	1 (1.5%)	79
2020-Nov	194	36 (18.6%)	26 (72.2%)	10 (27.8%)	0 (0.0%)	46
Grand total	720	246 (34.2%)	175 (71.1%)	67 (27.2%)	4 (1.6%)	321
value		<0.001	0.151	0.166	0.678