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Table 1 Distribution of bed days (BD) for patients (n = 2231) admitted to three clinical wards at TASH during the one-year study period

From: Multiple challenges of antibiotic use in a large hospital in Ethiopia – a ward-specific study showing high rates of hospital-acquired infections and ineffective prophylaxis

Clinical ward

Number of BD (%)

Mean number of BD (sd)

Number of patients with > 30 BD (%)

Internal medicine

25,766 (70.1)

20.1 (17.0)

245 (19.1)

Gynecology/Obstetrics

4974 (13.6)

10.4 (9.9)

54 (11.3)

Surgery

5993 (16.3)

12.7 (16.9)

21 (4.4)

Total

36,733 (100.0)

16.5 (16.3)

320 (14.3)