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Table 3 Characteristics of the participating hospitals and their A-teams

From: Monitoring, documenting and reporting the quality of antibiotic use in the Netherlands: a pilot study to establish a national antimicrobial stewardship registry

Hospital

 

A

B

C

D

E

Number of hospital beds

 

1002

953

268

554

543

A-team composition

Hospital pharmacist

+

+

+

+

+

ID specialist

+

+

+

+

+

Microbiologist

+

+

+

+

+

Information technician

−

−

−

−

+

Nurse

−

−

+

−

−

Quality of care specialist

−

+

−

−

−

Year of establishment of A-team

 

2014

2015

2013

2014

2014

Total numbers of prescriptions documented

 

343

1824

1729

575

436

Electronic Medical Record Present

 

−

+

−

−

+a

Electronic Prescribing System Present

 

+

+

+

+

+

  1. Abbreviations: ID infectious disease
  2. aonly partially: written patient record but laboratory and microbiology results are accessible via Electronic Medical Record