Study Design and Survey Development
UTIs
RECRUITMENT, UTI
We performed a survey study that included 4 clinical vignettes to determine how 2 differently formatted antibiograms were associated with NH clinicians’ decisions for treating UTIs compared with the absence of an antibiogram. The study was approved by the University of Wisconsin Institutional Review Board and deemed to be minimal risk research. Informed consent was obtained through recruitment emails and the survey tool. This study followed the American Association for Public Opinion Research (Several clinical vignettes representing common presentations of UTI in the NH setting were developed with the aim of creating realistic cases where multiple antibiotic choices were reasonable.We used 45 bacterial isolates from 49 urine cultures collected over a 1-year period at a single Wisconsin NH to develop a TA and a WISCA. The formats of both antibiograms underwent iterative revision according to input from content experts and NH clinicians who participated in pilot testing (