The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
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J. Antimicrob. Chemother. · Jul 2006
Hospital consumption of antibiotics in 15 European countries: results of the ESAC Retrospective Data Collection (1997-2002).
To collect reliable, comparable and publicly available data on hospital use of antibiotics in Europe aggregated at the national level (1997-2002). ⋯ It was cumbersome but feasible to collect ecological data on hospital antibiotic consumption in a set of 15 European countries on a retrospective basis, illustrating substantial cross-national variations in the extent and distribution of exposure to antibiotics in hospital care.