TABLE 1.

Comprehensive survey results from 10 hospitals

Question	No. (%) of respondents
No. of respondents completing questionnaire	10 (100)
Susceptibility testing methodology used
Routine testing
Microscan	3 (30)
Pasco	1 (10)
Vitek	6 (60)
S. pneumoniae
Etest and/or disk diffusion	9 (90)
Pasco	1 (10)
Methodology used to generate antibiogram
LIS	6 (60)
Automated testing system (Vitek or Microscan)	1 (10)
Both	3 (30)
Party responsible for preparing yearly hospital antibiogram
Microbiologist	9 (90)
Pharmacist	1 (10)
Antibiogram preparation
Only the first isolate taken from patient included
Yes	5 (50)
No	5 (50)
Each organism tested against same antimicrobials
Yes	10 (100)
No	0 (0)
At least 10 isolates of a given genus and/or species reported
Yes	10 (100)
No	0 (0)
System in place to alert staff of atypical results
Yes	9 (90)
No	1 (10)
Antibiogram includes results of manual and automated testing
Yes	10 (100)
No	0 (0)