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

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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: Of 372 respondents, 315 physicians had complete data (72% attendings, 28% fellows; 63% ID specialists, and 37% critical care specialists). Our PCA yielded a 3-item factor measuring which specialty should assume ICU antimicrobial stewardship (Cronbach standardized α = 0.71; higher scores indicate that ID physicians should be stewards), and a 4-item factor measuring value of ICU transdisciplinary collaborations (α = 0.62; higher scores indicate higher value). In regression models, ID physicians (vs critical care physicians), placed higher value on ICU collaborations and expressed discomfort with uncertain diagnoses. These factors were independently associated with stronger agreement that ID physicians should be ICU antimicrobial stewards. The following factors were independently associated with higher value of transdisciplinary collaboration: female sex, less discomfort with uncertain diagnoses, and stronger agreement with ID physicians as ICU antimicrobial stewards. Conclusions: ID and critical care physicians endorsed their own group for antimicrobial stewardship, but both groups placed high value on ICU transdisciplinary collaborations. Physicians who were more uncomfortable with uncertain diagnoses reported preference for ID physicians to coordinate ICU antimicrobial stewardship; however, physicians who were less uncomfortable with uncertain diagnoses placed greater value on ICU collaborations.

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Vazquez Guillamet, M. C., Burnham, J. P., Pérez, M., Kollef, M. H., Manthous, C. A., & Jeffe, D. B. (2022). Antimicrobial stewardship for sepsis in the intensive care unit: Survey of critical care and infectious diseases physicians. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 43(10), 1368–1374. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.389

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