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Table 1 Structural characteristics at the hospital level and number of procedures transmitted to the national reference center of 605 German surgical departments in group A and 216 German surgical departments in groups B&C that participated in the survey

From: Surgical site infection surveillance in German hospitals: a national survey to determine the status quo of digitalization

Variable

Group A Number (percentage) or Median (interquartile range)

Groups B&C Number (percentage) or Median (interquartile range)

Number of hospital beds

327 (204, 563)

490 (305, 686)

Departments in tertiary or maximum care hospitals

211 (34.9)

101 (46.8)

Departments in non-tertiary, non-maximum care* hospitals

394 (65.1)

115 (53.2)

Departments in public hospitals

171 (28.3)

69 (31.9)

Departments in non-public# hospitals

434 (71.7)

147 (68.1)

Number of procedures under surveillance in 2018 and 2019§

291 (156, 532)

315 (163, 626)

  1. *Contains primary care, secondary care, specialized care and unspecified. #Contains private for profit, private non-profit, ecclesiastical, other and unspecified. § Refers to all transmitted procedures, incl. ones marked as “during surveillance pause” or “not valid for reference data”