Table 1.

Description of participating wards providing data in 2018

	total		ICU		IMC		RW
	All n=	Core group n=	All n=	Core group n=	All n=	Core group n=	All n=	Core group n=
Hospitals	1460	108	1083	82	321	16	1448	99
Wards	17,330	912	1998	134	475	18	14,857	760
surgical	2846	165	224	15	39	1	2583	149
interdisciplinary	3075	138	1018	64	184	9	1873	65
medical	3583	207	255	20	68	1	3260	186
neonatology	255	21	186	16	16	1	53	4
pediatric	760	58	82	8	13	0	665	50
rehabilitation	488	3	15	0	4	0	469	3
Other non-surgical	3204	135	111	3	97	4	2996	128
Other surgical	3075	184	105	8	53	2	2917	174
Undefined	44	1	2	0	1	0	41	1
patientdays	866,974,407	82,559,533	49,144,866	6,432,414	9,549,448	765,479	808,280,093	75,361,640
Annual consumption of AHC (liters)	24,386,016	2,747,782	5,535,140	732,170	579,661	34,887	18,271,214	1,980,725

ICU Intensive care unit, IMC intermediate care unit, RW regular ward, AHC alcohol-based hand rub consumption