Asking the right questions: The relationship between incident ventilator-associated pneumonia and mortality

Critical Care

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Lanspa, Michael J ^a,b   Brown, Samuel M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INTERMOUNTAIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NOTE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SURVIVAL; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; MALE;

CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT;

EID: 84860486700     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc11308     Document Type: Note

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