Key areas of convergence and disagreement between patient/caregiver and physician groups
| Convergence | Disagreement |
|---|---|
| Widespread awareness of problem of antibiotic resistance and agreement that it represents a serious problem | Some patients/caregivers expressed preference for relatively large multidisciplinary decision-making team, including primary care provider and ID specialist; physicians favoured a mandatory expert consultation to assure patients of appropriate care |
| Streamlined development represents a reasonable response to crisis | Understanding of nature and mechanisms of antibiotic resistance (many patients had an erroneous understanding that could potentially affect adherence to treatment and patient well-being) |
| Decisions to use antibiotics approved under a streamlined process should be made by more than one physician with relevant experience | |
| Willingness to accept degree of uncertainty in risk/benefit balance, increasing with severity of illness | |
| Decision-making regarding use of therapies developed with a streamlined approach requires more than one person | |
| Safeguards needed to prevent abuse of streamlined development |
ID, infectious disease.