Hospitals | n = 19 |
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Presence of infectious diseases (ID) physician* | 15 (79) |
Teaching hospital for microbiologists | 11 (58) |
Teaching hospital for ID fellows | 4 (21) |
Structural ID meetings | 13 (68) |
Specialism of the chairman of the antibiotic committee | Â |
 ID physician | 3 (16) |
 Clinical pharmacologist | 2 (11) |
 Microbiologist | 13 (68) |
 No antibiotic committee | 1 (5) |
Local resistance rates used in determining local guideline | 16 (84) |
Antibiotic prescribing policies | Â |
Antibiotic formulary | 17 (89) |
Restrictive use of certain antibioticsa | 7 (37) |
Selective reporting of culture result | 11 (58) |
Automatic stop-order | 1 (5) |
Accessibility of local antibiotic guidelines | Â |
 On paper | 2 (11) |
 Digital | 9 (47) |
 Both | 7 (37) |
 None (no local antibiotic guideline) | 1 (5) |