What can we learn from international ventilator-associated pneumonia rates?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3303-3304

  Klompas, Michael ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

infection control and prevention; international comparisons; surveillance; ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG CAVITATION; LUNG LAVAGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGENATION; PATIENT CARE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

CROSS INFECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED;

EID: 84870193349     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31826bf3a5     Document Type: Editorial

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