Health-care associated infections rates, length of stay, and bacterial resistance in an intensive care unit of Morocco: Findings of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC)

Table 1 Patients characteristics

Surveillance Period	11/04 to 04/08
Experience of the infection control practitioner, y	16
Patients studied, n	1.731
Total ICU days, d	11.297
Men, %	52.4
Mean age, y, ± SD	42.4 ± 19.2
Mean ASIS, ± SD	3.9 ± 0.7
Mean APACHE II, ± SD	11.5 ± 8.2
Device use
Ventilator days, d	3.2
Ventilator use, proportion	0.28
CVC days, d	2.2
CVC use, proportion	0.19
Urinary catheter days, d	6.8
Urinary catheter use, proportion	0.60

ASIS = average severity of illness score; CVC = central venous catheter; ICU = intensive care unit.