Acquaintance and Awareness of Budding Physicians toward Antimicrobials' Use: Need of the Hour.

Only 46.6% of participants considered cost of treatment as an important factor ( Table 3 ). Knowledge Regarding Use of Antimicrobials in Common Infections Precisely, 28.66% of participants answered “macrolides” as most commonly used group of antibiotics for upper respiratory tract infection with statistically significant difference between three groups ( p -value 0.004), followed by “extended-spectrum penicillin” by 19.33% ( Table 4 ). Further, 56% of participants answered “fluoroquinolones” as most commonly prescribed group for urinary tract infection, with highly significant difference between three groups ( p -value < 0.00001). “Third-generation cephalosporins” (31.33%) were opted as most commonly prescribed antibiotic group for preoperative prophylaxis of surgical site infection followed by “extended-spectrum penicillin” (21.33%) and “first-generation cephalosporins” (18%).

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