Study of the Antibiotics Use Patterns in Inpatients of Trauma Centers in Iran during 2014–2015

The increasing prevalence of bacterial resistance in antibiotics has globally become an issue in recent years, and there is a correlation between wrong use of antibiotics and the microbial resistance. Since the pattern of use for antibiotics has considerable significance among all forms of medicine consumption, the present paper aims to study the pattern of use for antibiotics in Shahid Bahonar Hospital in Kerman.

The present research is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in Shahid Bahonar Hospital in Kerman, a hospital affiliated to Kerman University of Medical Sciences; the studied sample is all patients with 15 years of age and above who were admitted to the mentioned hospital during 2014 and 2015 and took antibiotic medicines during their hospitalization period. The statistical analysis of the data was performed by SPSS 18.

The present research determined that 69% of the studied patients were using antibiotics during their treatment period at the hospital; moreover, during this 2-year time span, the antibiotics with highest consumption amounts were as follows: Cefazolin, Clindamycin, Meropenem, and Vancomycin.

Based on the research results, it was found that, on average, 20 to 40% of the drug costs of the patients goes to antibiotics; this finding was in line with the previous researches. Also, some hospital departments had a higher antibiotics use, which is due, presumably, to lack of proper administration and/or to prolonged hospitalization period.