Increase in consumption of alcohol-based hand rub in German acute care hospitals over a 12 year period

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 2 Change of annual alcohol-based hand rub consumption (AHC) 2007–2018

						Distribution of AHC consumption ml/patient day
Ward		Patient days		Annual consumption of AHC (liters)		MW		P25		P50		P75
		All n=	Core n=	All n=	Core n=	All n=	Core n=	All n=	Core n=	All n=	Core n=	All n=	Core n=
ICU	2007	1,195,921	518,160	92,208	40,394	79.2	76.8	52.5	53.3	70.6	71.9	97.74	92.9
	2018	4,361,185	536,980	594,276	79,602	137.4	147.0	102.5	117.6	129.4	137.4	160.9	171.3
	Change [95%CI]				1.97 [1.96, 1.98]	1.74 [1.71, 1.76	1.92 [1.87, 1.96]
	p-value					< 0.0001	< 0.0001
IMC	2007	125,599	68,745	5195	1666	41.4	24.2	16.1	14.7	39.6	24.2	52.8	40.7
	2018	1,172,856	55,878	82,854	3771	70.6	67.5	45.3	54.6	64.0	59.2	93.0	82.7
	Change [95%CI]				2.26 [2.19, 2.34]	1.69 [1.60, 1.79]	2.18 [1.98, 2.41]
	p-value					< 0.0001	0.0003
RW	2007	14,891,844	6,363,820	243,159	101,957	19.0	18.3	10.2	10.2	14.5	14.3	20.6	20.3
	2018	71,791,164	5,983,841	2,112,330	211,363	32.6	38.4	22.0	26.7	28.8	33.5	37.8	43.4
	Change [95%CI]			8.69	2.07 [2.06, 2.08]	1.71 [1.70, 1.73]	2.10 [2.06, 2.14]
	p-value					< 0.0001	< 0.0001

Mann Whitney U test (overall); Wilcox sign rank sum test (core group); ICU Intensive care unit, IMC intermediate care unit, RW regular ward, AHC alcohol-based hand rub consumption

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