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Table 1 Characteristics of the participating intensive care units, and hospitals (from September 2003 to January 2011)

From: Impact of a multidimensional infection control approach on central line-associated bloodstream infections rates in adult intensive care units of 8 cities of Turkey: findings of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC)

Data

ICUs, n

ICU Patients, n

Type of ICU, n (%)

  

  Cardiac Surgical

1 (8%)

172

  Surgical

1 (8%)

222

  Medical

2 (15%)

452

  Adult Stepdown

2 (15%)

828

  Medical Surgical

7 (54%)

2,343

All ICUs

13 (100%)

4,017

Type of hospital, n (%)

  

  Private Community

12 (92%)

3,996

  Academic Teaching

1 (8%)

21

  All hospitals

13 (100%)

4,017

  1. ICU, Intensive Care Unit.