Standardized care for nosocomial pneumonia is a valuable tool to improve patient outcomes: How do we get intensivists to listen?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 350-352

  Brito, Veronica ^a   Niederman, Michael S ^a  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Appropriate herapy; Compliance; Guidelines; Mortality; Nosocomial pneumonia; Patient outcomes

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM; QUINOLONE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADD ON THERAPY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EDITORIAL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDIZATION; TREATMENT DURATION; CROSS INFECTION; NOTE; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 59649101460     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181931108     Document Type: Editorial

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