Table 1.

Characteristics of Short-Term Acute Care Hospitals That Reported at Least 1 Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Case to the Illinois Extensively Drug-Resistant Organism Registry During, 2014

Hospital Characteristic	Mean	Median	Interquartile Range
Cases	3.5	1.0	0–4
Case rate (per 10 000 patient-days)	1.0	0.2	0–1.1
No. of beds	157	126	27–234
No. of admissions (per year)	7388	5301	1040–10 892
Patient-days	35 545	24 181	4618–48 072
No. of patients shared with an LTACH	2.6	0	0–3
No. of patients shared with an LTACH (Chicagoland region only)	7.9	5	2–11
Patient-Sharing Characteristics	Mean	Minimum	Maximum
No. of hospital connections (degree)	64	1	145
Degree (Chicagoland)	92	17	145
Degree (non-Chicago urban)	71	11	138
Degree (rural)	27	1	86

N = 99.

Abbreviation: LTACH, long-term acute care hospital.