Expected number of patients per year with clinically relevant positive blood culture (BC) results in the state of Thuringia
| Planned beds in Thuringia (total) | 22 244 |
| Planned beds with relevance for AlertsNet (active BC diagnostics) | 20 403 (92%) |
| Bed-days/year (×365) | 7 447 095 |
| Bed-days/ 1000 patients | 7 447 |
| ×85% (mean bed occupancy rate) | 6 330 |
| BC sets taken (about 50 BC sets per 1000 patient-days) | 316 501 |
| Positive BCs (×8% positivity rate) | 25 320 |
| True positive BCs (×80%, since 20% false positive) | 20 256 |
| Patients with true positive BCs (×25%, since a mean of 4 BC sets are taken per patient and episode) | 5 064 |
The numbers were estimated from data of planned beds from quality reports 2010 of the Thuringian BC processing facilities published by the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA).