Table 3.
Respondents’ knowledge for each vignette about type of antibiotic, timing of first dose and total duration by specialty.
| Anesthesiology | General Surgery | Surgical Specialties | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vignettes | Vignettes | Vignettes | |||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
| Type of antibiotic | |||||||||
| Incorrect | 131 (86.7) | 145 (99.3) | 36 (24.5) | 12 (12.1) | 6 (6) | 72 (72) | 46 (21.8) | 128 (72.3) | 81 (44) |
| Correct | 20 (13.3) | 1 (0.7) | 111 (75.5) | 87 (87.9) | 94 (94) | 28 (28) | 165 (78.2) | 49 (27.7) | 103 (56) |
| Timing of first dose | |||||||||
| Incorrect | 18 (12.7) | 19 (13.9) | 21 (15.2) | 34 (36.6) | 37 (37.8) | 30 (36.6) | 83 (44.4) | 75 (43.3) | 53 (40.8) |
| Correct | 124 (87.3) | 118 (86.1) | 117 (84.8) | 59 (63.4) | 61 (62.2) | 52 (63.4) | 104 (55.6) | 98 (56.7) | 77 (59.2) |
| Total length of the prophylaxis | |||||||||
| Incorrect | 42 (30.7) | 53 (49.6) | 70 (50.4) | 17 (18.5) | 37 (38.1) | 21 (25.9) | 44 (23.9) | 79 (45.4) | 60 (44.8) |
| Correct | 95 (69.3) | 54 (50.4) | 69 (49.6) | 75 (81.5) | 60 (61.9) | 60 (74.1) | 140 (76.1) | 95 (54.6) | 74 (55.2) |
Numbers for each item may not add up to total number of study population due to missing values.