Table 7.

Setting of care in university and non-university hospitals

	University hospital	Non-university hospital	p value
Number of hospitals	18 (22.5)	62 (77.5)
Number of participating ICUs	33 (34.7)	62 (65.3)
Beds per hospital	1275 (1189–1444)	367 (280–526)	<0.001
Beds per ICU	13 (10–16)	9 (7–12)	0.001
ICU size category
< 5/<8/ <14/ ≥14 beds per ICU	4 (12.1)/3 (9.1)/9 (27.3)/17 (51.5)	18 (29)/21 (33.9)/18 (29)/5 (8.1)	<0.001
Total number of all ICU beds	465 (43.2)	612 (56.8)
ICU specialization			<0.001
Surgical/medical	6 (18.2)	41 (66.1)
Medical	8 (24.2)	6 (9.7)
Surgical	16 (48.5)	15 (24.2)
Neurological	3 (9.1)	0
Number of all ICU patients	2994 (39.7)	4546 (60.3)
Patients per ICU	74 (51–106)	74 (49–98)	0.47
Patients per ICU bed	5.8 (4.4–8.0)	7.7 (5.2–9.6)	0.04
Number of ventilated patients	558 (54.3)	470 (45.7)
Ventilated patients per ICU	14 (8–23)	6 (4–10)	<0.001
Ventilated patients per ICU bed	1.0 (0.7–1.5)	0.7 (0.5–1.0)	0.002
% ventilated patients in all ICUs	19 (12–27)	10 (6–15)	<0.001

Data presented as n (%) or median (interquartile range)

ICU intensive care unit