Ground level utility of Access, Watch, Reserve classification: Insights from a tertiary care center in North India

Table 1 Descriptive data representing the antibiotic usage patterns categorized according to the designation of prescriber, department, outpatient vs inpatient and AWaRe classification

Category	Counts	% of total
Total number of patients	123
Total prescriptions	123
No. of different antibiotics used	27
Most common antibiotic	Metronidazole	19
Designation
Senior resident	42	18.7
Junior resident	162	72.0
Consultant	21	9.3
OPD/IPD
OPD	55	24.6
IPD	169	75.4
Department
Medicine	112	49.6
Surgery	114	50.4
WHO AWaRe classification
Access	140	57.61
Watch	93	38.27
Reserve	10	4.11
	Antibiotics used in a patient	Duration of antibiotics
Mean	1.84	6.63
Median	2	6.00
Standard deviation	0.833	3.83
Minimum	1	1.00
Maximum	5	19.0

Second half of the table represents the descriptive analysis of antibiotics used and duration of individual antibiotics. OPD: Outpatient; IPD: Inpatient; WHO: World Health Organization.