Implementing quality improvements in the intensive care unit: Ventilator bundle as an example

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 305-309

  Zilberberg, Marya D ^a,b   Shorr, Andrew F ^c   Kollef, Marin H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b EviMed Research Group LLC   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Mechanical ventilation; Outcomes; Policy; Quality; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD;

HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 59649107572     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181926623     Document Type: Review

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