Ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis: Public-reporting scam or important clinical infection?

Chest

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 485-488

  Wunderink, Richard G ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AEROSOL; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRONCHIOLITIS; BRONCHUS SECRETION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEVER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LUNG INFILTRATE; MANDATORY REPORTING; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MUCUS SECRETION; OXYGENATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PUBLIC REPORTING; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRACHEOBRONCHITIS; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED TRACHEOBRONCHITIS;

EID: 79952208900     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.10-2641     Document Type: Editorial

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