Table 2.

Characteristics of participating intensive care units

Characteristic	Total	General hospitals	University hospitals
Number of ICU departments	47	43 (91)	4 (9)
Number of admitted patients	455	407 (89)	48 (11)
Number of beds	510	466 (91)	44 (9)
Number of available beds	442	399 (90)	43 (10)
Number of case report forms returned	152	130 (86)	22 (14)

Results are shown for all participating intensive care units (ICUs; total), and subdivided into general and university hospital ICUs (% of total).