Antibiotic use in patients with COVID-19: a 'snapshot' Infectious Diseases International Research Initiative (ID-IRI) survey.

Background: Antibiotics may be indicated in patients with COVID-19 due to suspected or confirmed bacterial superinfection.

Objectives: To investigate antibiotic prescribing practices in patients with COVID-19.

Methods: We performed an international web-based survey and investigated the pattern of antibiotic use as reported by physicians involved in treatment of COVID-19.

Young doctors' perspectives on antibiotic use and resistance: a multinational and inter-specialty cross-sectional European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) survey.

Background: Postgraduate training has the potential to shape the prescribing practices of young doctors.

Objectives: To investigate the practices, attitudes and beliefs on antibiotic use and resistance in young doctors of different specialties.

Methods: We performed an international web-based exploratory survey.

Perceptions, attitudes, and practices of French junior physicians regarding antibiotic use and resistance.

Objectives: To assess the perceptions, attitudes, and practices of French junior physicians regarding antibiotic use and resistance, and then to identify the characteristics of junior physicians associated with appropriate practices of antibiotic use.

Method: European junior physicians received an email invitation to complete a 49 item web questionnaire between September 2015 and January 2016. We present the French data.

Legal framework of antimicrobial stewardship in hospitals (LEASH): a European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) cross-sectional international survey.

Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) is the cornerstone activity in the combat against antimicrobial resistance. In order to ensure sustainable deployment and development of AMS, a strategic and regulatory framework needs to be provided by national healthcare authorities. Experts from 32 European countries, Israel and Turkey were invited to participate in a cross-sectional internet-based survey from October 2016 to May 2017 on the legal framework and mandatory components (structures, activities) of AMS in hospitals, i.