Estimating the attributable mortality of ventilator-associated pneumonia from randomized prevention studies

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2736-2742

  Melsen, Wilhelmina G ^a   Rovers, Maroeska M ^a   Koeman, Mirelle ^c   Bonten, Marc J M ^a,b  

^a Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c HAGA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

intensive care; mechanical ventilation; meta analysis; nosocomial pneumonia; outcome

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

HUMANS; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR;

EID: 81855176170     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182281f33     Document Type: Review

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