Antimicrobial stewardship for sepsis in the intensive care unit: Survey of critical care and infectious diseases physicians.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the attitudes of infectious diseases (ID) and critical care physicians toward antimicrobial stewardship in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Design

Anonymous, cross-sectional, web-based surveys.

Setting

Surveys were completed in March-November 2017, and data were analyzed from December 2017 to December 2019.

Participants

ID and critical care fellows and attending physicians.

Methods

We included 10 demographic and 17 newly developed, 5-point, Likert-scaled items measuring attitudes toward ICU antimicrobial stewardship and transdisciplinary collaboration. Exploratory principal components analysis (PCA) was used for data reduction. Multivariable linear regression models explored demographic and attitudinal variables.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Vazquez Guillamet MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9588438 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature