Daily multidisciplinary rounds to implement the ventilator bundle decreases ventilator-associated pneumonia in trauma patients: But does it affect outcome?

Surgical Infections

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 373-378

  Stone Jr , Melvin E ^a   Snetman, David ^a   O'Neill, Andrea ^a   Cucuzzo, Janet ^a   Lindner, Joseph ^a   Ahmad, Salman ^a   Teperman, Sheldon ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDISCIPLINARY GOAL ROUND; NURSING STAFF; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY THERAPIST; TEACHING ROUND; TEAMWORK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTILATOR; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA BUNDLE;

ADULT; AGED; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 80155131664     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2010.067     Document Type: Article

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