Mucoactive agent use in adult UK Critical Care Units: a survey of health care professionals’ perception, pharmacists’ description of practice, and point prevalence of mucoactive use in invasively mechanically ventilated patients

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Introduction

Materials & Methods

Results

Practitioner-level survey

Unit-level survey

Point prevalence survey

Discussion

Conclusions

Supplemental Information

Appendix: MICCS collaborators

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.8828/supp-1

Point prevalence survey questionnaire

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.8828/supp-2

Practitioner level survey questionnaire

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.8828/supp-3

Unit-level survey questionnaire

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.8828/supp-4

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare there are no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Mark Borthwick and Murali Shyamsundar conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Danny McAuley, John Warburton, Rohan Anand, Judy Bradley, Bronwen Connolly, Bronagh Blackwood, Brenda O’Neill, Marc Chikhani and Paul Dark conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

Data is available at Queen’s University Belfast: Shyamsundar, M. (Creator) (30 Aug 2019). Mucoactive agent use in adult UK Critical Care Units: a survey of health care professionals perception, pharmacists’ description of practice, and point prevalence of mucoactive use in invasively mechanically ventilated patients . Queen’s University Belfast. Survey_of_mucoactive_use_in_UK_adult_critical_care_units_survey_of_p(.xlsx), PP_IMV_Mucoactive_agent_use_27082019(.xlsx), Unit_level_Mucoactive_agent_use_27082019(.xlsx). DOI: 10.17034/de3d8d3c-9c4b-459e-8b16-8fb9bb50e1d7.

Funding

The authors received no funding for this work.

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