Hospital- and patient-related factors associated with differences in hospital antibiotic use: analysis of national surveillance results.

The proportion of patient hospital stays with an infectious disease main ICD-10 diagnosis was highly significant (P <0.01) and strongly correlated (beta weights of 0.36 to 0.47) with all antibiotic use and with the use of penicillins, but not with BSA use.

also in 132,142 other papers