Trends and Drivers of Inpatient Antibiotic Consumption among 89 China Tertiary General Hospitals from 2011Q1 to 2015Q4

Table 2

Panel regression analysis predicting likelihood of the use of antibiotic.

Dependent variable		Coefficient	t	p
	Regions	10779.312	8.315	<0.001
	Ownership	−20711.436	−9.714	<0.001
	Time	−6.714	−2.546	0.011
	Constant	5051175.817	2.606	0.009
	Regions	−0.152	−0.272	0.786
	Ownership	−1.596	−1.733	0.083
	Time	−0.013	−11.610	<0.001
	Constant	9978.110	11.682	<0.001
Drug	Regions	−1.346	−3.346	0.001
	Ownership	−0.082	−0.125	0.901
	Time	−0.012	−14.526	<0.001
	Constant	8811.157	14.653	<0.001

DDDs, accumulative defined daily doses.
DDDs = ∑ (drug specification × amount/defined daily dose).
AUD = DDDs × 100/inpatient days.
Drugs variety refers to the total number of drug types.
Total panel (balanced) observations: 1780.
for all covariates listed. There is no collinearity between variables.
: 62.070, prob. (F-Statistic): <0.001.
: 45.940, prob. (F-Statistic): <0.001.
: 74.080, prob. (F-Statistic): <0.001.