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Table 4 Hospital characteristics

From: Appropriate antibiotic use for patients with complicated urinary tract infections in 38 Dutch Hospital Departments: a retrospective study of variation and determinants

Hospitals

n = 19

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

 

 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

 

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

 

 On paper

2 (11)

 Digital

9 (47)

 Both

7 (37)

 None (no local antibiotic guideline)

1 (5)

  1. *Numbers are n (%), unless otherwise indicated
  2. aPermission of a microbiologist or ID physician required before using it