Design and rationale of the Procalcitonin Antibiotic Consensus Trial (ProACT), a multicenter randomized trial of procalcitonin antibiotic guidance in lower respiratory tract infection

Table 6 ProACT Centers and Investigators

Center	# hospital beds	Urbanicity	Teaching status	Ownership	City, State
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	602	Urban	Large teaching	Nonprofit	Boston, MA
Brigham and Women’s Hospital	763	Urban	Large teaching	Nonprofit	Boston, MA
Detroit Receiving Hospital	225	Urban	Large teaching	Profit	Detroit, MI
Essentia Health St. Mary’s Medical Center	545	Rural	Small teaching	Nonprofit	Duluth, MN
Hershey Medical Center	454	Urban	Large teaching	Nonprofit	Hershey, PA
Maricopa Medical Center	275	Urban	Large teaching	Government	Maricopa. AZ
Massachusetts General Hospital	941	Urban	Large teaching	Nonprofit	Boston, MA
Norwalk Hospital	261	Urban	Large teaching	Nonprofit	Norwalk, CT
Ohio State University Hospital	850	Urban	Large teaching	Government	Columbus, OH
University of Alabama Hospital	997	Urban	Large teaching	Government	Birmingham, AL
University of California Irvine Medical Center	350	Urban	Large teaching	Government	Irvine, CA
University of Maryland Medical Center	771	Urban	Large teaching	Nonprofit	Baltimore, MD
UPMC Mercy	419	Urban	Large teaching	Nonprofit	Pittsburgh, PA
UPMC Presbyterian	795	Urban	Large teaching	Nonprofit	Pittsburgh, PA

We defined teaching status using the resident-to-bed ratio, classifying hospitals as nonteaching if they had no resident trainees, small teaching if the ratio was more than zero and less than 0.2, and large teaching if the ratio was 0.2 or greater [58]
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: Michael Donnino; Brigham and Women’s Hospital: Peter Hou; Detroit Receiving Hospital: Robert Sherwin; Essentia Health St. Mary’s Medical Center: John Holst; Hershey Medical Center: Colleen Rafferty, Daniel Rodgers; Maricopa Medical Center: William Dachman, Frank LoVecchio; Massachusetts General Hospital: Michael Filbin; Norwalk Hospital: Jonathan Fine, Jean Hammel; Ohio State University Hospital: Matthew Exline, Lauren Southerland; University of Alabama Hospital: Michael Kurz, David McCullum; University of California Irvine Medical Center: Shahram Lotfipour; University of Maryland Medical Center: Gentry Wilkerson; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Mercy Hospital: Heather Prunty, Brian Suffoletto; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian Hospital: Aaron Brown, Franziska Jovin

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