Characteristics of included wards
| Total (N=32) | |
| Specialty | |
| Surgery/obstetrics | 14 (43.8%) |
| Other medical specialties* | 11 (34.4%) |
| ICU/reanimation | 7 (21.9%) |
| Number of beds | |
| Mean (SD) | 35.5 (18.5) |
| Proportion of double bedrooms | |
| Mean (SD) | 0.2 (0.2) |
| Going outside the ward | |
| Never | 1 (3.2%) |
| Sometimes | 11 (35.5%) |
| Fairly often | 14 (45.2%) |
| Always | 5 (16.1%) |
| Missing | 1 |
| Ratio patient/physician | |
| Mean (SD) | 2.9 (4.0) |
| Use of external healthcare services | |
| Never | 8 (25.0%) |
| Sometimes | 17 (53.1%) |
| Fairly often | 7 (21.9%) |
| Ratio patient/paramedics | |
| Mean (SD) | 0.8 (0.3) |
| Time schedule | |
| 2*12 hours | 5 (15.6%) |
| 3*8 hour | 27 (84.4%) |
*Other medical specialties: cardiology, geriatrics, gastroenterology, infectious diseases, internal medicine, nephrology, oncology, pulmonology, rheumatology, urology.
ICU, intensive care unit.