Table 1.
Hospital and ICU characteristics
| Hospital characteristics,* ICUs, n (% of 274 units) | |
| Teaching hospital | 194 (70.8) |
| Major teaching hospital | 64 (23.4) |
| Urban hospital | 246 (89.8) |
| Ownership | |
| Non-profit, non-government | 150 (54.7) |
| For profit | 47 (17.2) |
| Government | 77 (28.1) |
| ICU characteristics† | |
| ICU size in mean number of beds ±SD | 16.7±12.4 |
| ICU type, units, n (% of 279 participating units) | |
| Medical/surgical | 213 (77.7) |
| Cardiology and/or cardiothoracic | 33 (12.0) |
| Trauma/burn | 16 (5.8) |
| Neurology and/or neurosurgery | 12 (4.4) |
| Programme focus, as identified by ICU, n (% of 274) | |
| Focused on CAUTI and CLABSI | 185 (67.5) |
| Focused on CLABSI | 202 (73.7) |
| Focused on CLABSI only | 17 (6.2) |
| Focused on CAUTI | 207 (75.5) |
| Focused on CAUTI only | 22 (8.0) |
| Programme focus not specified | 50 (18.2) |
*Hospital characteristics are as defined in the AHA Annual Survey.
†Excluded units from analysis: one unit that reported only CAUTI data, two units that could not be linked with available AHA survey data, two units that were missing data on bed size and one unit that was missing ICU type data.
AHA, American Hospital Association; CAUTI, catheter-associated urinary tract infection; CLABSI, central line-associated bloodstream infection; ICU, intensive care unit.