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Published in final edited form as: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2014 May;35(5):480–493. doi: 10.1086/675821

TABLE 4.

Characteristics of Organizations in the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Research Network

Type of organization	hospitals
Participating hospitals	244
Teaching hospitals	152
Tertiary care hospitals	118
Public hospitals	108
Children’s hospitals	26
Government/Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals	10
Long-term acute care hospitals	7
Those with adult ICUs	~185
Those with pediatric ICUs (pediatric or NICU)	~30
Unique principal investigators	265
Electronic/IRB resources	69
Hospitals with access to electronic microbiology results	79
Access to demographic, admission and discharge information electronically	77
Those with local IRB	75

NOTE. ICU, intensive care unit; IRB, institutional review board; NICU, neonatal intensive care unit.