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Table 2 Participating intensive care units (ICUs)

From: Concordance between European and US case definitions of healthcare-associated infections

Country

Number of ICUs / Number of hospitals

Number of ICUs per specialty*

Median number of beds per hospital

Median number of beds per ICU

Median number of beds with a ventilator per ICU (n)

Number of included patients

Mixed

Internal medicine

Surgery

Cardiac surgery

Other†

Austria

7 / 1

3

3

0

0

1

2,137

8

8

132

Belgium

5 / 4

3

1

1

0

0

854

18

18

1,318

France

4 / 4

2

0

2

0

0

504

11

11

323

Germany

5 / 1

2

0

0

1

2

3,200

11

11

689

Hungary

15 / 10

7

1

2

2

3

1,163

10

10

2,311

Italy

7 / 4

2

1

2

0

2

474

8

8

1,031

Spain

4 / 4

3

0

0

0

1

600

19

16

702

All

47 / 28

22

6

7

3

9

854

11

11

6,506

  1. * An ICU was defined as belonging to a specialty if ≥ 80% of patients in this ICU belonged to this specialty.
  2. † Other: Neurosurgery, Paediatrics, Transplant surgery, Burn, Neurology.