Enquiry on the antibiotic usage at Ancona Regional Hospital.

A survey of the use of antimicrobial agents in the Regional Hospital of Ancona was carried by the Infectious Disease Department in collaboration with the Hygiene Institute, Ancona, in all patients admitted in the hospital in a 15-day period, March 1--15, 1978. This study has shown an overuse of antibiotics in this series of patients. Despite the limitations of the survey it can be a useful aid to know the situation of antibiotic therapy in this Italian hospital.