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. 2021 Jul 10;10(7):843. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics10070843
Antibiotic Prescribing in ED
We are aiming to understand more about antibiotic prescribing in the ED.
There are seven (7) questions which should take <5 min to complete.
Q1. What is your role in ED?
  • Intern

  • Junior House Officer (Resident, PGY2)

  • Senior House Officer (Resident, PGY3 or above)

  • Principal House Officer (Unaccredited registrar)

  • ED Registrar

  • Consultant

  • Nurse practitioner

  • Other (please state…………………………….)

In your most recent experience with antibiotic prescribing during the shift on the following date: __________________
Q2. What antibiotic was prescribed?
Antibiotic Type __________________________________
Antibiotic Dose __________________________________
Antibiotic Frequency ______________________________
Q3. What condition were antibiotics prescribed for? (i.e., working diagnosis: UTI, febrile neutropenia)
___________________________________________________
Q4. Did you make the decision to prescribe?
  • Yes

  • No

Q5. If No, then who made the decision?
(indicate level of training and speciality)
Level of Training
  • Intern

  • JHO

  • SHO

  • Registrar

  • Consultant

Speciality
  • ED

  • General Medical

  • General Surgical

  • ICU

  • Other________________

Q6. For your most recent experience, which of the following were used to decide on antibiotic selection? (tick all which apply)?
O Electronic Therapeutic Guidelines (eTG)
O Other guidelines (please specify _________________________)
O ED consultant recommendation (please specify if in person or vs phone call)
O Infectious disease recommendation
please specify if registrar or consultant
please specify if in person or phone call
please specify if you talked to ID, or someone else; if so, who _____________
O Microbiology recommendation
please specify if registrar or consultant
please specify if in person or phone call
please specify if you talked to ID, or someone else; if so, who _____________
O Other recommendation (please specify ___________________________)
O I don’t know
Q7. At time of pre-scribing, how con-fident were you on a scale of 1-5 that antibiotics were in-dicated? (please circle)
Q8. At the time of prescribing, how confident were you on a scale of 1-5 that an appropriate antibiotic was prescribed? (please circle)
Thank you for participating!