Authors and Disclosures
Paul G. Williams1,2*, Alexis Tabah1,3,4, Menino Osbert Cotta1, Indy Sandaradura5–7, Salmaan Kanji8, Marc H. Scheetz9, Sahand Imani10, Muhammed Elhadi11, Sónia Luque-Pardos12–14, Natalie Schellack15, Cristina Sanches16, Jean-Francois Timsit17,18, Jiao Xie19, Andras Farkas20,21, Kathryn Wilks22,23 and Jason A. Roberts1,24–26, National Coordinators on behalf of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) and the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Study Group for Infections in Critically Ill Patients [ESGCIP]
1Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research (UQCCR), The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4029, Australia. 2Pharmacy Department, Sunshine Coast University Hospital, Birtinya, QLD, Australia. 3Intensive Care Unit, Redcliffe Hospital, Redcliffe, QLD, Australia. 4Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. 5Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia. 6Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia. 7Institute for Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, New South Wales Health Pathology, Sydney, NSW, Australia. 8The Ottawa Hospital and Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada. 9Pharmacometric Center of Excellence, Departments of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL, USA. 10Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District, Nepean Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia. 11Faculty of Medicine, University of Tripoli, Tripoli, Libya. 12Pharmacy Department, Parc de Salut Mar, Barcelona, Spain. 13Infectious Pathology and Antimicrobials Research Group (IPAR), Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mediques (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain. 14CIBER of Pharmacy, Saint Clare's Infectious Diseases (CIBERINFEC CB21/13/0002) Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain. 15Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. 16Campus Centro Oeste Dona Lindu, Federal University of Sao João del Rei, Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, Brasil. 17Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris – Bichat hospital Medical and infectious diseases ICU (MI2), 75018 Paris, France. 18IAME U 1137 Université Paris-Cité Site Bichat, 75018 Paris, France. 19Department of Pharmacy, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China. 20Optimum Dosing Strategies, Bloomingdale, NJ, USA. 21Department of Pharmacy, Saint Clare's Health, Denville, NJ, USA. 22Infectious Diseases Department, Sunshine Coast University Hospital, Birtinya, QLD, Australia. 23School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. 24Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. 25Pharmacy Department, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. 26Division of Anaesthesiology Critical Care Emergency and Pain Medicine, Nîmes University Hospital, University of Montpellier, Nîmes, France.
*Correspondence:
Paul G. Williams paul.williams3@uqconnect.edu.au
Author contributions
PW designed the survey, sought societal endorsement, led and coordinated distribution of the survey, analyzed the data, and wrote the manuscript. AT, MC, and JAR contributed to the conception, design, analysis and writing of the manuscript. All other authors contributed to the design of survey, distributed the survey via their national networks, and provided manuscript feedback. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.