Table 1.
Characteristics of the six participating hospitals
| EMC (Netherlands) | KSK (Austria) | VGS (Austria) | INMI (Italy) | ERU (Turkey) | TGH (Greece) | Median | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of hospital beds | 1184 | 500 | 1914 | 157 | 1000 | 452 | 750 | |
| No. of single-patient rooms (%) | 211 (18) | 10 (2) | 148 (8) | 54 (34) | 278 (28) | 8 (2) | 101 (13) | |
| Average number of patients in a room | 2 | 3 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | |
| No. of infection control practitioners employed (on average present per day) | 8 (4) | 1 (1) | 6 (5) | 5 (1) | 6 (6) | 2 (2) | 6 (3) | |
| No. of physicians specialized in infectious diseases* employed (on average present per day) | 4 (1) | 1 (1) | 12 (1) | 60 (40) | 5 (5) | 10 (8) | 8 (7) | |
| Clinical hospital admissions | 2014 | 36,976 | 29,571 | 105,930 | 3037 | 163,712 | 20,804 | 33,274 |
| 2015 | 36,811 | 29,695 | 106,869 | 2906 | 169,774 | 20,246 | 33,253 | |
| 2016 | 37,858 | 29,357 | 114,030 | 3090 | 173,482 | 20,486 | 33,608 | |
| Clinical hospital admission days | 2014 | 288,865 | 143,651 | 524,087 | 43,785 | 466,275 | 87,168 | 216,258 |
| 2015 | 289,124 | 142,084 | 518,262 | 44,306 | 470,543 | 83,546 | 215,604 | |
| 2016 | 288,734 | 141,569 | 513,926 | 49,620 | 453,503 | 80,449 | 215,152 |
*Medical microbiologists and infectious disease specialists. Abbreviations; No.: number. EMC: Erasmus MC University Medical Centre in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. KSK: Kardinal Schwarzenberg Klinikum in Salzburg, Austria. VGS: Vienna General Hospital in Vienna, Austria. INMI: National Institute for Infectious Diseases ‘Lazzaro Spallanzani’ in Rome, Italy. ERU: Erciyes University in Kayseri, Turkey. TGH: Tzaneio General Hospital in Piraeus, Greece