Despite evidence supporting the effectiveness of best practices of infection prevention and management, many surgeons worldwide fail to implement them. Evidence-based practices tend to be underused in routine practice. Surgeons with knowledge in surgical infections should provide feedback to prescribers and integrate best practices among surgeons and implement changes within their team. Identifying a local opinion leader to serve as a champion within the surgical department may be important. The "surgeon champion" can integrate best clinical practices of infection prevention and management, drive behavior change in their colleagues, and interact with both infection control teams in promoting antimicrobial stewardship.

1st Department of Surgery Department of Abdominal Thoracic Surgery and Traumatology General University Hospital Prague Czech Republic

1st Department of Surgery Kavala General Hospital Kavala Greece

2nd Department of Surgery Aretaieion University Hospital National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Athens Greece

2nd Surgical Clinic Emergency Hospital of Craiova Craiova Romania

3rd Department of General Surgery Jagiellonian University Medical College Krakow Poland

Abdominal Center University Hospital Meilahti Helsinki Finland

Clinic for Surgery University Clinical Center Zvezdara Belgrade Serbia

Colorectal Surgery Unit General Surgery Department La Paz University Hospital Madrid Spain

Department General Surgery Kipshidze Central University Hospital Tbilisi Georgia

Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences University of Brescia Brescia Italy

Department of Digestive Surgery Cannes Hospital Cannes France

Department of Emergency Surgery City Hospital Mozyr Belarus

Department of Emergency Surgery Maggiore Hospital Parma Italy

Department of General and Emergency Surgery Riga East University Hospital Gailezers Riga Latvia

Department of General and Thoracic Surgery University Hospital Giessen Giessen Germany

Department of General Surgery Division of Surgery Rambam Health Care Campus Haifa Israel

Department of General Surgery Jesenice General Hospital Jesenice Slovenia

Department of General Surgery Mansoura Faculty of Medicine Mansoura University Mansoura Egypt

Department of General Surgery Medical University of Plovdiv UMHAT Eurohospital Plovdiv Bulgaria

Department of Surgery 2 Cátedra de Clínica Quirúrgica Universidad Nacional de Asunción San Lorenzo Paraguay

Department of Surgery Academic Medical Center Amsterdam Netherlands

Department of Surgery Anadolu Medical Center Kocaali Turkey

Department of Surgery and Obstetrics Gynaecology Regional Hospital Limbe Cameroon

Department of Surgery College of Health Sciences Obafemi Awolowo University Ile Ife Nigeria

Department of Surgery College of Medicine and Health Sciences UAE University Al Ain United Arab Emirates

Department of Surgery Denver Health Medical Center University of Colorado Denver CO USA

Department of Surgery Edendale Hospital Pietermaritzburg South Africa

Department of Surgery Emergency Hospital of Bucharest Bucharest Romania

Department of Surgery Hospital Clínico Universitario Santiago de Compostela Spain

Department of Surgery John Peter Smith Health Network Fort Worth TX USA

Department of Surgery Macerata Hospital Via Santa Lucia 62100 Macerata Italy

Department of Surgery Medical School University of Pécs Pécs Hungary

Department of Surgery North Estonia Medical Center Tallinn Estonia

Department of Surgery Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago IL USA

Department of Surgery Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences Rohtak India

Department of Surgery Radiology University Hospital of the West Indies Kingston Jamaica

Department of Surgery Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Edinburgh UK

Department of Surgery Trauma Service Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital Nelson R Mandela School of Clinical Medicine Durban South Africa

Department of Surgery UMC Ljubljana Ljubljana Slovenia

Department of Surgery University Clinical Center of Tuzla Tuzla Bosnia and Herzegovina

Department of Surgery University Hospital Centre Zagreb Zagreb Croatia

Department of Surgery University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital Ilorin Nigeria

Department of Surgery University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI USA

Department of Surgery VA Boston Health Care System Boston University Harvard Medical School Boston MA USA

Department of Surgery Western Michigan University School of Medicine Kalamazoo MI USA

Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville TN USA

Emergency Surgery Unit San Filippo Neri Hospital Rome Italy

Faculdade de Ciências Médicas e da Saúde de Juiz de Fora Department of Surgery Hospital Universitário Terezinha de Jesus Juiz de Fora Brazil

Faculty of Medicine Department of Surgery Thammasat University Hospital Thammasat University Amphoe Khlong Luang Pathum Thani Thailand

General Surgery Department M Bufalini Cesena Hospital Cesena Italy

General Surgery Department Magee Womens Hospital UPMC Pittsburgh USA

General Surgery Department Medical University University Hospital St George Plovdiv Bulgaria

Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery Porto Portugal

Surgical Disciplines Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Regional Clinical Hospital Kaliningrad Russian Federation

Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Unit Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center Jerusalem Israel

Unit of Endocrine Head and Neck Surgery and Unit of Surgical Infections Support Department of General Surgery ParcTaulí Hospital University Sabadell Spain

University of New Mexico School of Medicine Albuquerque NM USA

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