Underestimating the impact of ventilator-associated pneumonia by use of surveillance data

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 650-652

  Drees, Marci ^a,b   Hausman, Sherry ^a   Rogers, Andrea ^a   Freeman, Leslie ^a   Wroten, Kathy ^a  

^a CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

BENCHMARKING; CROSS INFECTION; DELAWARE; DOCUMENTATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 77952119325     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/652776     Document Type: Article

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