OUT-PATIENT ANTIBIOTIC PRESCRIBING AUDIT TOOL

County: Sub-County:

Hospital: Date

Data collection Position

Date Total number of Number of Prescription % of Prescription with

Prescriptions with Antibiotics Antibiotics

Example: 89 62 62189*100=69.7%

Mean

WHO Prescribing Indicators

1. Average number of medicines per encounter – 1.6-1.8

2. Medicine prescribed by generic name – 100%
3. Encounters with an antibiotic prescribed – 20.0-26.8%
4. Encounters with injection prescribed -13.4-24.1%
5. Medicine prescribed from the Essential Medicine List (EML)