Authors | Reference | Country | Year a | Questionnaires (returned/sent) | Response rate | Communication channel | Specialty of participitants | Level of medical care |
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Mayberry et al. | [9] | USA | 1999/1997 | 292/473 | 62% | Trauma surgeons | 85% Teaching hospitals | |
Kirkpatrick et al. | [10] | Canada | 2005/2005 | 86/102 | 84% | Mail and email | Trauma surgeons | |
Ravishankar and Hunter | [4] | UK | 2005/NA | 137/207 | 66% | Intensivists | ||
Nagappan et al. | [14] | Australasia | 2005/2004 | 36/40 | 90% | Hand-out at workshop | ICU registrars | 72% High-level ICU |
10% Medium-level ICU | ||||||||
3% Low-level ICU | ||||||||
Tiwari et al. | [2] | UK | 2006/2004 | 127/222 | 57% | Intensivists | 25% Teaching hospitals | |
75% District hospitals | ||||||||
Kimball et al. | [15] | USA | 2006/2001 | 1622/4538 | 36% | 35% Surgeons | ||
32% Internists | ||||||||
18% Pediatricians | ||||||||
10% Anesthetics | ||||||||
1% Emergency doctors | ||||||||
De Laet et al. | [12] | Belgium | 2007/2005 | 41/689 | 6% | Surgeons | 73% Teaching hospitals | |
27% District hospitals | ||||||||
Ejike et al. | [13] | 60% America | 2010/2006 | 517/1107 | 47% | Hand-out at pediatric congresses | 60% Pediatric nurses | 81% Tertiary care hospitals |
26% Europe | 30% Pediatric intensivists | 14% Community hospitals | ||||||
12% Australasia | 4% General pediatricians | 2% Private practise | ||||||
6% Other pediatric health care providers | 1% Clinics | |||||||
2% Others | ||||||||
Zhou et al. | [16] | China | 2011/2010 | 108/141 | 77% | 39% Emergency doctor | 100% Tertiary care hospitals | |
36% Internists | ||||||||
19% Surgeons | ||||||||
6% Anesthetics | ||||||||
Kaussen et al. | Germany | 2012b/2006 | 113/222 | 51% | 52% Surgeons | Larger hospitals with > 450 patient beds | ||
48% Anesthetics | ||||||||
Malbrain et al. | [11] | 58% America | 2012/2007 | 2244/8081 | 28% | Contacting via email/online-questionnaire | 37% ICU physicians | |
32% Europe | 23% Surgeons | |||||||
9% Australasia | 21% Anesthetics | |||||||
1% Africa | 8% Internists | |||||||
6% Pediatricians | ||||||||
2% Emergency physicians | ||||||||
1% Cardiologists | ||||||||
2% Others | ||||||||
Newcombe et al. | [38] | 97% USA | 2012/2010 | 433/691 | Hand-out at pediatric congress | Pediatric nurses | > 60% Tertiary care hospitals | |
< 30% Community hospitals | ||||||||
< 10% Others |