Recurrent ventilator-associated pneumonias: The gift that keeps on giving or the guest who won't leave?

Surgical Infections

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 319-324

  Reed, R Lawrence ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

CLINICAL TRIAL; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; NOMENCLATURE; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED;

HUMANS; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; RECURRENCE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 77954891504     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2010.027     Document Type: Review

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