Table 2.
Healthcare professions identified in the focus group discussion who could theoretically be involved in the response to an MDRO outbreak as described in the scenarioa
| Hospital | Regional Public Health Services (GGD) | Nursing Home | Homecare | General Practitioner | Medical Microbiological Laboratory | National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Institution management | 9. Institution management | 14. Institution management | 18. Institution management | 21. General Practitioner | 22. Medical microbiologist b | 23. RIVM |
| 2. Infection prevention specialist | 10. Infection prevention specialist | 15. Infection prevention specialist | 19. Nurse | – | – | – |
| 3. MD, medical microbiologist | 11. MD, infectious disease control specialist | 16. MD, Geriatric specialist | 20. Communication professional | – | – | – |
| 4. Infectiologist | 12. Infectious disease control nurse | 17. Communication professional | – | – | – | – |
| 5. Treating medical specialist | 13. Communication professional | – | – | – | – | – |
| 6. Department management | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 7. Outbreak management team | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 8. Communication professional | – | – | – | – | – | – |
aProfessions selected for survey participation are visualised in bold
bIn the survey analysis, the responses of the medical microbiologists from hospital and laboratory settings have been taken together as one group, because the medical microbiologists proved to be regionally organised and not necessarily devoted to one institution