Antibiotic use among twelve Canadian First Nations communities: a retrospective chart review of skin and soft tissue infections

Table 1 Geographic distribution of patient-charts and individual SSTI cases

Province	Total patient charts reviewed	Total number of patient-charts that contained at least one prescription of antibiotic(s)	Number of patient-charts that contained at least one SSTI case^a	Total number of cases recorded from patient-charts	Number of SSTI cases recorded from patient-charts	Total number of antibiotic prescriptions	Prevalence of antibiotic use
Alberta	60	39	7	77	8	89	0.650
Saskatchewan	70	40	16	63	21	81	0.571
Manitoba	120	64	29	170	60	207	0.533
Ontario	100	68	24	126	34	162	0.680
Quebec	22	13	10	23	14	25	0.591
Total	372	224	86	459	137	569	0.602

^aCase was defined as a charted visit at the nursing station where an antibiotic prescription of one or more types of antibiotics was provided in the past 12 months

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