The politics and ethics of hospital infection prevention and control: a qualitative case study of senior clinicians’ perceptions of professional and cultural factors that influence doctors’ attitudes and practices in a large Australian hospital

Table 1 Characteristics of participants

	Doctors [N = 16]: 11 staff specialists [SS]; 5 visiting medical officers [VMO]		Nurses [N = 10]
Gender M: F	10:		3:7
Seniority	Divisional director	6	Hospital/divisional director or deputy; facility manager	6
	Departmental/unit director	4	Nursing unit manager	2
	Other senior medical consultant	6	Clinical nurse consultant	2
Specialty	Medical 6; surgical 4; other 6^a	16	Medical 5; surgical 3; other 2^b	10

^aOther doctors’ specialties: intensive care [2]; emergency medicine [2]; anaesthetics [1]; obstetrics/gynaecology [1]
^bOther nurses’ specialties: intensive care, infection prevention and control

ISSN: 1472-6963