AIM Survey Results

In last month’s website update, we gave you a taster of the results from the AIM Survey. You told us that you found the case studies and the educational materials the most useful areas on the website. You also thought that the expert reviews were useful because they gave you a deeper understanding of recent information.

Many (30%) of you used the case studies for your own personal education, while 19% used them to educate others. In fact, you thought that the case studies were great for educational purposes. Interestingly, the case studies were used by 12% of you to make prescribing decisions.

We also asked you about your future educational needs, which will guide us on how best to improve the AIM website.

• The majority (77%) of you would be interested in using audit tools in order to gauge the appropriateness of your current antimicrobial regimens.
• Almost 60% would use more of the website content if materials carried CME accreditation.
• You told us that 78% of you used international guidelines, and 85% of you used national guidelines to produce local treatment protocols. Further to this, most (58%) of you thought that a single source of management guidelines would be useful.
• In terms of new case studies, 72% of you thought that ones involving a catheter-related infection and a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)-associated infection should be developed.

In response to your comments and in an effort to meet the needs that you have highlighted in this survey, we are in the process of developing audit tools that will help you determine the appropriateness of antimicrobial regimens; a repository of national and international treatment guidelines; and new case studies that cover the topics that you thought would be of most educational value.