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Table 2 Characteristics of the team in 156 hospitals

From: The Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery: defining a model for antimicrobial stewardship—results from an international cross-sectional survey

Characteristics

n (%)

Components

- Epidemiologist

64 (41.0)

- Hospital administrator

73 (46.8)

- Clinical pharmacologist

8 (5.1)

- Hospital pharmacist

95 (60.9)

- Infection control specialist

106 (67.9)

- Infectious disease specialist

125 (80.1)

- Intensivist

76 (48.7)

- Microbiologist

119 (76.3)

- Surgeon

92 (59.0)

- Other

11 (7.1)

- Infectious disease specialist AND hospital pharmacologist/pharmacist

87 (55.8)

Frequency of meetings

- More than once a week

15 (9.6)

- Once a week

26 (16.7)

- Twice a month

13 (8.3)

- Once a month

58 (37.2)

- Less than once a month

27 (17.3)

- Only as necessary

17 (10.9)