biostudies-literatureUnknown17(1)Sartelli M<h4>Background</h4>The objectives of the study were to investigate the organizational characteristics of acute care facilities worldwide in preventing and managing infections in surgery; assess participants' perception regarding infection prevention and control (IPC) measures, antibiotic prescribing practices, and source control; describe awareness about the global burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and IPC measures; and determine the role of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic on said awareness.<h4>Methods</h4>A cross-sectional web-based survey was conducted contacting 1432 health care workers (HCWs) belonging to a mailing list provided by the Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery. The self-administered questionnaire was developed by a multidisciplinary team. The survey was opWorld journal of emergency surgery : WJES17https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8928018biostudies-literatureIt is time to define an organizational model for the prevention and management of infections along the surgical pathway: a worldwide cross-sectional survey.PMC8928018Podda MCortese FVeroux MPanyko AMassalou DRossi SRodrigues GAl-Hasan MNPatel TSartelli MHardcastle TCCampbell GYRO'Connor DBIsik AAbu-Zidan FMLuppi DMora-Guzman IMulita FDellinger EPMarwah SConti LMishra SKSasia DClaridge JAGachabayov MSall IGonullu EChiarello MMJain SAZuidema WPDi Bella SElmangory MMAnsaloni LGuirao XTartaglia DAkin EKiguba RDe Simone BCavazzuti LLeppaniemi AKFleres FMaier RVAnsari SLohsiriwat VDamaskos DHecker MNavsaria PHLabricciosa FMMartines GPapadopoulos AHecker AVereczkei AZakaria ADGattuso GRems MLitvin AKhamis FSiribumrungwong BMaseda EMitul ARGhannam WMKok KYYMagagi IACocuz METovani-Palone MRAkhmeteli LVillamil GERNegoi IFransvea PKanj SSTomadze GPagani LHamad YTEYBarie PSLostoridis ERocha-Pereira ND'Acapito FPesce AGiraudo GVega GMMCocuz IGKavalakat AJAtici SDPantalone DRasa HKRahim RFantoni MQuiodettis MACeresoli MAlconchel FTarasconi AYahya ATumietto FDetanac DSFilipescu DGonfa KBLasithiotakis KZubareva NMaegele MMarinis APata FMetan GPellino GDumitru IMKobe YBoumediene AMusina AMSakakushev BEWeckmann SAVasilescu ACainzos MAPorcu AKapoor GCicuttin EOrdonez CABelskii VAChiarugi MDimitrov ENKaraiskos ILandaluce-Olavarria ADogjani AShelat VGvan Goor HPopivanov GIMiranda-Novales MGBaral SKafil HSFoghetti DKryvoruchko IASeretis CBains LArgenio GKirkpatrick AWPintar TKovacevic BMZachariah SKXiao YPararas NAboubreeg WFAdamou HBala MEnciu OCui YKhokha VSawyer RGReichert MGaleiras RFry DECillara NMazuski JESlavchev MMohamed MIHPerrone GToro AWidmer LWNita GEBaili ECzepiel JChandy SJMohamedahmed AYYGhisetti VKim JITan BKArauz ABDemetrashvili ZCoccolini FBrisinda GAtanasov BCKuriyama AD'Oria MIsmail NCoimbra RIsmail ADhingra SSolaini LToma EADas KBenboubker MBen-Ishay ODelibegovic SMemish ZABordoni PDi Carlo IAlberio MGMartinez-Perez APerra TCatena FMesina CAwad SSBaraket OSerradilla-Martin MClarizia GKenig JSeni JCoppola RBaiocchi GLfalseIt is time to define an organizational model for the prevention and management of infections along the surgical pathway: a worldwide cross-sectional survey.<h4>Background</h4>The objectives of the study were to investigate the organizational characteristics of acute care facilities worldwide in preventing and managing infections in surgery; assess participants' perception regarding infection prevention and control (IPC) measures, antibiotic prescribing practices, and source control; describe awareness about the global burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and IPC measures; and determine the role of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic on said awareness.<h4>Methods</h4>A cross-sectional web-based survey was conducted contacting 1432 health care workers (HCWs) belonging to a mailing list provided by the Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery. The self-administered questionnaire was developed by a multidisciplinary team. The survey was op2022-01-01T00:00:00Z2022 Mar2025-04-26T18:34:07.154Z2024-11-15T17:03:03.365ZS-EPMC89280183530073110.1186/s13017-022-00420-4