Table 2.

Epidemiology of diarrhoea during the 14 first days of the ICU stay

Variable	Units	Data
Diarrhoea incidence	Diarrhoea days (per 100 patient–days)	83 (5.2)
Number of patients with diarrhoea	n (%)	38 (14)
Number of diarrhoea days per patient	Median (range)	1 (1; 10)
Number of liquid stools per diarrhoea	Median (range)	4 (3; 16)
Days of diarrhoea onset	Median (range)	6 (2; 14)

Diarrhoea was defined as at least three liquid stools per day. Diarrhoea incidence is reported as patient-days by the total of the 1,595 analysed patient-days.