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A study of hospital staff attitudes concerning the comparative merits of antibiotics
Author(s) -
Macaraeg Placido V. J.,
Lasagna Louis,
Bianchine Joseph R.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.941
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1532-6535
pISSN - 0009-9236
DOI - 10.1002/cpt19711211
Subject(s) - medicine , family medicine , ampicillin , diversity (politics) , university hospital , antibiotics , questionnaire , sociology , social science , anthropology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
In an attempt to describe and explain doctors’ preferences for antibiotics, a survey was performed in a major university hospital. A questionnaire was filled out by 75.1 per cent (160) of the interns and residents on all the services in the hospital. In addition, every inpatient who received ampicillin during aperiod of 6 weeks was followed so as to compare actual utilization and performance of this antibiotic with the usage reported in the questionnaire. The results illustrate the diversity of motivations involved in the prescribing habits of the physicians surveyed and the serious disagreement between some of the practices and opinions of the house staff and those of infectious disease experts at the same institution.