Human Antimicrobial Use Report – 2014

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Public Health Agency of Canada

Date published: 2015-11-17

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Figure 1.1: Number of specific diagnoses per inhabitant and the percentage of those diagnoses with recommendations for an antimicrobial in 2014
Figure 1.2: Percent of diagnoses that received an antimicrobial recommendation by community physicians in Canada, 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2014
Figure 1.3: Number of antimicrobial recommendations per 10,000 inhabitants provided by office-based physicians in Canada, by age and antimicrobial classification, 2014
Figure 1.4: Number of diagnoses and percentage of diagnoses with antimicrobial recommendations by region, 2007 to 2014
Figure 2.1: Number of DDDs per prescription, DDDs per inhabitant and prescriptions per inhabitant for antimicrobials dispensed by Canadian community pharmacies, 2004 to 2014
Figure 2.2: Patterns in antimicrobial use by age group, as dispensed by Canadian pharmacies 2010 to 2014
Figure 2.3: Prescriptions per inhabitant for the eight most frequently dispensed antimicrobials in 2014 by retail pharmacies in Canada; oral antimicrobials (2004-2009), oral and parenteral antimicrobials (2010-2014)
Figure 2.4: Defined daily doses per inhabitant for the eight antimicrobials with the highest DDD values in 2014; oral antimicrobials (2004-2009), oral and parenteral antimicrobials (2010-2014).
Figure 2.5: Average DDDs per prescription for the antimicrobials with the highest prescription rate and DDDs dispensed in 2014, by community pharmacies in Canada; oral antimicrobials (2004-2009), oral and parenteral antimicrobials (2010-2014).
Figure 2.6: DDDs of parenteral antimicrobials in Canada 2010 to 2014, by hospital purchasing or community dispensing
Figure 2.7: Prescriptions per inhabitant dispensed by community pharmacies in Canadian provinces from 2004 to 2014, by province
Figure 2.8: Prescriptions and DDDs per inhabitant dispensed by community pharmacies in Canadian provinces in 2014, by province
Figure 2.9: Prescriptions per 1,000 inhabitants for parenteral antimicrobials dispensed from community pharmacies across Canada, 2002 to 2014
Figure 3.1: DDDs per discharge, kilograms of active ingredient per 1,000 discharges, and cost per discharge for antimicrobials purchased by Canadian hospitals, 2002 – 2014
Figure 3.2: Patterns in DDDs per 1,000 discharges from 2002 to 2014 for antimicrobials of last recourse
Figure 3.3: DDDs per discharge in 2014 for oral and parenteral products purchased by hospitals in Canada, by province
Figure 3.4: Patterns in DDDs per discharge 2002 to 2014 for antimicrobials purchased by hospitals in Canada, by province
Figure 3.5: Patterns in DDDs per discharge 2002 to 2014 for amoxicillin products purchased by hospitals in Canada, by province
Figure 3.6: Patterns in DDDs per discharge 2002 to 2014 for piperacillin and tazobactam purchased by hospitals in Canada, by province

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