Toward improved surveillance: The impact of ventilator-associated complications on length of stay and antibiotic use in patients in intensive care units

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 471-477

  Hayashi, Yoshiro ^a,b,c   Morisawa, Kenichiro ^b,e   Klompas, Michael ^f,g   Jones, Mark ^c   Bandeshe, Hiran ^a,c   Boots, Robert ^a,c   Lipman, Jeffrey ^a,c   Paterson, David L ^a,b,d  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d Centre for Healthcare Related Infection Surveillance and Prevention (CRISP)   (Australia)

^e ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

hospital acquired infection; intensive care unit; surveillance; ventilator associated complication; ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; FUROSEMIDE; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATELECTASIS; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTILATORS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84873037704     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis926     Document Type: Article

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