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Usage of antibiotics dropping, but still room for improvement
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Though the use of antibiotics has dropped in domestic hospitals, surgery patients in the country are still being administered 50 percent more antibiotics than necessary, health officials from the National Health and Family Planning Commission said.
Antibiotics usage for hospitalized patients dropped by 21 percentage points last year compared to 2010 and dropped by 6 percentage points for outpatients during the same time span, officials told a health forum on antibiotics management held at Shanghai General Hospital over the weekend.
Dr Pan Changqing, vice president of Shanghai General Hospital, said the hospital had improved management of the drugs. It kicked off a program in January in which 17 pharmacists now work with 15 clinical departments on proper drug use, antibiotics monitoring and adverse reaction reporting.
“The mechanism is working very well,” he said. “For instance, antibiotics usage among hospitalized patients with respiratory diseases dropped by 10 percentage points within four months.”
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