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Table 2 Epidemiology of diarrhoea during the 14 first days of the ICU stay

From: Diarrhoea in the ICU: respective contribution of feeding and antibiotics

Variable

Units

Data

Diarrhoea incidence

Diarrhoea days (per 100 patient–days)

83 (5.2)

Number of patients with diarrhoea

n (%)

38 (14)

Number of diarrhoea days per patient

Median (range)

1 (1; 10)

Number of liquid stools per diarrhoea

Median (range)

4 (3; 16)

Days of diarrhoea onset

Median (range)

6 (2; 14)

  1. Diarrhoea was defined as at least three liquid stools per day. Diarrhoea incidence is reported as patient-days by the total of the 1,595 analysed patient-days.