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

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 3 Distribution of alcohol-based hand rub consumption (AHC) according to type of ward and specialty

			Distribution of AHC consumption ml/patient day
Ward	Patient days	Annual consumption of AHC (liters)	mean	25th percentile	median	75th percentile
ICU
total	4,361,185	594,276	136	103	129	161
surgical	550,586	83,332	151	119	144	176
interdisciplinary	2,244,321	281,303	125	98	124	147
medical	486,144	65,277	134	103	126	162
neonatology	415,916	73,178	176	129	162	216
pediatric	146,714	24,788	169	130	164	213
rehabilitation	32,561	3471	107	103	111	120
IMC
total	1,172,856	82,854	71	45	64	93
surgical	82,205	5983	73	48	62	89
interdisciplinary	500,670	36,218	72	48	69	95
medical	186,789	12,321	66	46	59	89
neonatology	30,700	2896	94	72	88	133
pediatric	15,860	2340	148	44	160	187
rehabilitation	12,740	748	59	53	62	71
RW
total	71,792,092	2,112,330	29	22	29	38
surgical	12,840,675	379,371	30	22	28	35
interdisciplinary	9,154,385	262,671	29	23	29	37
medical	16,671,719	493,922	30	23	29	37
neonatology	117,162	10,318	88	53	77	114
pediatric	1,905,292	118,762	62	44	59	80
rehabilitation	4,187,022	63,967	15	11	19	28

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

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