Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Cesarean Delivery: A Survey of Anesthesiologists

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of survey respondents.

Respondent and hospital characteristics	N	%
Anesthesiologist experience
Currently training	4	0.3
<5 years	107	8.8
5–14 years	427	34.9
15+ years	684	55.9
Region of practice in the United States
Northeast	248	20.3
Southeast	233	19.1
Midwest	245	20.0
Southwest	118	9.7
West	241	19.7
International	138	11.3
Hospital type (respondents could choose >1)
University or teaching hospital	471	38.5
Nonteaching or community hospital	729	59.6
Public/military	53	4.3
Variable	14	1.1
Number of institutional cesarean deliveries annually
<100	81	6.6
100–500	523	42.8
>500	619	50.6
Frequency working in obstetric anesthesia
Very often (several times a week)	690	56.4
Occasionally (a few times a month)	475	38.8
Rarely (less than once a month)	38	3.1
Very rarely (only a few times a year)	20	1.6
Temporal practice change
This is how I was trained	396	32.4
My practice changed >7 years ago	301	24.6
My practice changed 1–7 years ago	463	37.96
My practice changed within the past year	63	5.2