Estudio de utilización de antibacterianos en las áreas de clínica y cirugía del hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso durante el período 2014 - 2018

Abstract

The present study aims to determine the antibacterial of greater consumption in the Clinical and Surgery Areas of the "Vicente Corral Moscoso" Hospital during the 2014-2018 period. It was developed through a descriptive, longitudinal observational analysis with retrospective information collection, the methodology proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) was used, based on the Anatomo-Chemical-Therapeutic Classification (ACT) in doses defined daily (DDD), as a technical unit of measurement and in the number DDD/100stances – day as a comparison parameter. For the statistical analysis, the Microsoft Office® Excel 2016 program (v16.0) was used. In the Clinic service the most consumed antibacterials during 2014 was ceftriaxone with 12.83DDD/stays-days, 2015 ampicillin + sulbactam with 5.78DDD/100stays-days, 2016 ceftriaxone with 5.80DDD/100stays-days, 2017 ampicillin + sulbactam with 5.63DDD/100stays-days and 2018 clarithromycin with 6.20DDD/stays-days. In the same way, in the department of Surgery it was cefazolin during the entire study period and considering an average use of 10.95100DDD/stay-days. The main use of cephalosporins was as a treatment for a variety of infectious diseases of the respiratory system, urinary tract, skin, soft tissues, joints, heart, etc., but especially in prevention and as prophylactic. This study of antibiotic consumption is very important in the pharmacoepidemiological area, in order to be used by other institutions and provides comparable data with similar entities nationally and internationally.