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 2 Characteristics of the eligible patients in the Global and ECDC-PPS 2017 (Belgium, acute care hospitals)

	Global-PPS 2017		ECDC-PPS 2017		Total
	N	%	N	%	N	%
Total number of included patients	16,207	100.0	11,800	100.0	28,007	100.0
Adults^a	15,139	93.4	11,008	93.3	26,147	93.4
Children^a	722	4.5	606	5.1	1328	4.7
Neonates^a	346	2.1	186	1.6	532	1.9
Mean age ± SD^b			60.2 ± 25.3
Number of males / females^b Missing			5264 / 6512 24	44.7 / 55.2 0.2
Distribution of the McCabe score (%)
Non-fatal disease			7295	61.8
Ultimately fatal disease			1873	15.9
Rapidly fatal disease			689	5.8
Missing			1943	16.5
Ward specialty (%)
Medicine	11,067	68.3	8837	74.9	19,904	71.1
Surgery	4293	26.5	2432	20.6	6725	24.0
ICU	847	5.2	531	4.5	1378	4.9
Patient specialty (%)^b
Medicine			3600	30.5
Surgery			2531	21.4
ICU			583	4.9
Geriatrics			1813	15.4
Obstetrics / Maternity			583	4.9
Healthy neonates			156	1.3
Neonatology			121	1.0
Pediatrics			464	3.9
Psychiatry			823	7.0
Rehabilitation			903	7.7
Long-term care			33	0.3
Mix			28	0.2
Other			50	0.4
Missing			112	1.0

ECDC European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, ICU Intensive care unit, N number of patients, PPS point prevalence survey, SD Standard deviation
^aThe classification of adults, children and neonates is based on the ward type
^bThese data are only available in the ECDC-PPS whereby patient characteristics were collected for all eligible patients (as opposed to the Global-PPS where this data was only available for patients who received at least one antimicrobial)
If data were not collected in the PPS, fields were left blank.

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