Assessment of Antibiotic Utilization Pattern in Treatment of Acute Diarrhoea Diseases in Bishoftu General Hospital, Oromia Ethiopia

Table 5

Antibiotic usage for acute diarrhoeal diseases of health professionals in Bishoftu General Hospital, Bishoftu town, January 2015–December 2015.

Profession of prescriber	Prescriptions		Antibiotic usage
	Number	%	Appropriate		Inappropriate
			Number	%	Number	%
Physician (general practitioners)	134	44	49	37	85	63
Nurse (with BSc. degree)	69	23	14	20	55	80
Unknown	100	33	21	21	79	79
Total	303	100	84		219