Trends of Empiric Antibiotic Usage in a Secondary Care Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

Table 1

Diagnosis and antibiotics prescribed at the time of admission.

Serial number.	Diagnosis on admission	Total number of cases	Antibiotics prescribed on admission
			Ceftriaxone; 𝑛 (%)	Ampicillin; 𝑛 (%)	Nalidixic acid; 𝑛 (%)	Ciprofloxacin; 𝑛 (%)	Multiple; 𝑛 (%)
1	Acute gastroenteritis	29	24 (83)	1 (3.5)	2 (7)	2 (7)	0
2	Enteric fever	25	23 (92)	2 (8)	0	0	0
3	Pneumonia	20	15 (75)	3 (15)	0	0	2 (10)
4	Upper respiratory tract infection	17	11 (65)	6 (35)	0	0	0
5	Urinarytract infection	10	8 (80)	0	1 (10)	1 (10)	0
6	Febrile seizure	8	6 (75)	2 (25)	0	0	0
7	Bronchiolitis	7	4 (57)	3 (43)	0	0	0
8	Meningitis	5	4 (80)	1 (20)	0	0	0
9	Reactive airway disease/asthma	2	0	2 (100)	0	0	0
10	Others	8	7 (87.5)	0	0	0	1 (12.5)