The knowledge, attitudes and practices of doctors regarding antibiotic resistance at a tertiary care institution in the Caribbean

Table 3 Knowledge of Preventing or Containing Antibiotic Resistance

	Mean	SD
Ongoing physician educational programmes	2.67	.659
Access to timely lab reports	2.67	.674
Development of national antibiotic guidelines	2.63	.684
Access to microbiology consultations	2.58	.694
Development of better diagnostic tests to differentiate bacterial from viral infection	2.53	.745
Public educational programmes	2.44	.753
Antibiotic restriction: requiring a countersignature by a consultant or microbiologist	2.04	.800
Antibiotic cycling: switching routine use from one class to another at a regular intervals	1.97	.920

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