More research is required to understand factors influencing antibiotic prescribing in complex conditions like suspected ventilator-associated pneumonia

Affiliations

• ¹ Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.
• ² The Wellcome-Wolfson Centre for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University, Belfast, UK.
• ³ College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ⁴ Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
• ⁵ Department of Cancer and Surgery, Imperial College, London, UK.
• ⁶ Manchester National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
• ⁷ Integrated Critical Care Unit, Sunderland Royal Hospital, Sunderland, UK.
• ⁸ Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK.
• ⁹ Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle, UK.
• ¹⁰ Intensive Care Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ¹¹ Intensive Care Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK.
• ¹² Northern Ireland Clinical Trials Unit, Belfast, UK.
• ¹³ Intensive Care Unit, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK.
• ¹⁴ Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Chester, UK.
• ¹⁵ Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
• ¹⁶ Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital Coventry, Coventry, UK.
• ¹⁷ Intensive Care Unit, Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, Cramlington, UK.
• ¹⁸ Intensive Care Unit, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Cardiff, UK.
• ¹⁹ Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Preston, UK.
• ²⁰ Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, Birmingham, UK.
• ²¹ Intensive Care Unit, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK.
• ²² Intensive Care Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK.
• ²³ Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, Dudley, UK.
• ²⁴ Becton Dickinson Life Sciences, Erembodegem, Belgium.