Point prevalence survey of antimicrobial use and healthcare-associated infections in Belgian acute care hospitals: results of the Global-PPS and ECDC-PPS 2017

Table 1 Characteristics of the included acute care hospitals in the Global and ECDC-PPS 2017 (Belgium)

Number of included	Global-PPS 2017		ECDC-PPS 2017		Total		Degree of participation^a
Number of included	sites	AHG^b	sites	AHG^b	sites	AHG^b	sites	AHG^b
Total	64	51	47	33	110	83	110^c/191 = 57.6%	83/102 = 81.4%
Per type
Primary hospitals	48	40	33	23	81	63	81/144 = 56.3%	63/77 = 81.8%
Secondary hospitals	12	7	12	8	23	14	23/27 = 85.2%	14/17 = 82.4%
Tertiary hospitals	3	3	2	2	5	5	5/9 = 55.6%	5/7 = 71.4%
Specialized hospitals	1	1	0	0	1	1	1/11 = 9.1%	1/1 = 100.0%
Per region
Brussels	11	6	7	6	17	11	17/23 = 73.9%	11/12 = 91.7%
Flanders	33	30	16	12	49	42	49/101 = 48.5%	42/54 = 77.8%
Wallonia	20	15	24	15	44	30	44/67 = 65.7%	30/36 = 83.3%

AHG Administrative hospital groups, PPS Point prevalence survey
^aBased on the total number of hospital sites in Belgium in 2017 (6) (total AHG: N = 102; total sites; n = 191)
^bAt least one site of the AHG participated
^cOne hospital participated both in the Global and ECDC-PPS 2017 (other point in time, other patients)