Research from the Canadian Institute for Health Information finds that in 2015, over 25 million courses of antibiotics were prescribed in Canada, enough for every person between the ages of 20 and 69. CIHI compared the country with other nations in the OECD and finds Canada in the middle of the pack when it comes to the rate of consuming antibiotics. Healthcare professionals prescribe antibiotics to about 10 out of every 1,000 people in Netherlands; the figure in France is 30 out of 1,000. The data is contained in an interactive tool produced by CIHI that compares the provinces with OECD countries on dimensions such as access to care, health status, non-medical determinants of health, patient safety, prescribing in primary care and quality of care.
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