Active surveillance cultures of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a tool to predict methicillin-resistant S. aureus ventilator-associated pneumonia

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1437-1442

  Chan, Jeannie D ^a   Dellit, Timothy H ^a,b   Choudhuri, Julie A ^a   McNamara, Elizabeth ^a   Melius, Elizabeth J ^a   Evans, Heather L ^a   Cuschieri, Joseph ^a   Arbabi, Saman ^a   Lynch, John B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases   (United States)

Author keywords

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; predictive values; sensitivity; specificity; surveillance culture; ventilatorassociated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRONCHOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OROPHARYNX; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRACHEA; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, STAPHYLOCOCCAL; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860252269     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318243168e     Document Type: Article

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