Table 2.

Incidence of non-ventilator-associated hospital-acquired pneumonia (nvHAP) per medical specialty

	Patients with nvHAP in % (95%CI)	nvHAP/1000 patient days (95%CI)
Overall UHZ	0.65 (0.57–0.73)	0.83 (0.73–0.94)
Internal medicine and subspecialtiesa	0.83 (0.67–1.02)	1.06 (0.85–1.30)
Oncology and haematologyb	1.97 (1.45–2.61)	1.57 (1.16–2.09)
Abdominal and urogenital surgeryc	0.57 (0.37–0.85)	0.72 (0.46–1.07)
Cardiac and thoracic surgeryd	1.37 (0.95–1.91)	1.05 (0.73–1.47)
Traumatology and plastic surgerye	0.53 (0.33–0.80)	0.74 (0.46–1.11)
Eye, ear, head and neck surgeryf	0.06 (0.01–0.17)	0.14 (0.03–0.41)
Neurology and neurosurgeryg	0.69 (0.45–1.03)	0.69 (0.45–1.03)
Gynaecology and obstetricsh	0.09 (0.03 -0.20)	0.16 (0.06–0.35)

UHZ, University Hospital Zurich.

Number of patients in 2017: +, <100 patients; ++, 100–500 patients; +++, 500–1000 patients; ++++, 1000–2000 patients; +++++, >2000 patients.

^aInternal medicine (patients in 2017: ++++), angiology (+++), cardiology (+++++), dermatology (++++), emergency medicine (+), endocrinology (++), gastroenterology (++++), geriatrics (++), immunology (+), infectious diseases (++), nephrology (++), pneumology (++++), and rheumatology (+++).

^bHaematology (++++), nuclear medicine (++), oncology (++++), and radio-oncology (++).

^cVisceral surgery (+++++) and urology (++++).

^dCardiac surgery (++++) and thoracic surgery (+++).

^eTraumatology (+++++) and plastic surgery (++++).

^fOphthalmology (++++), oral and maxillofacial surgery (+++), and otorhinolaryngology (+++++).

^gNeurology (++++), neuroradiology (++), neurosurgery (++++), and psychiatry (++).

^hGynecology (+++++) and obstetrics (+++++).