New identification of outliers and ventilator-associated pneumonia rates from 2005 to 2007 within the German Nosocomial Infection Surveillance System

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 246-252

  Meyer, E ^a,b   Sohr, D ^a,b   Gastmeier, P ^a,b   Geffers, C ^a,b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b National Reference Centre for Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections   (Germany)

Author keywords

Funnel plots; German hospital surveillance system; Statistics; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; GERMANY; HISTOGRAM; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

CROSS INFECTION; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; VENTILATORS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 70349835415     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2009.06.033     Document Type: Article

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