Adverse outcomes in intensive care-acquired pneumonia are important to predict

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2235-2236

  Rumbak, Dania M ^a   Garza, Elsa G ^b   Rumbak, Mark J ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT MONTEFIORE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

death; intensive care; predictors of adverse events; ventilator free days; ventilatorassociated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ADVERSE OUTCOME; CLINICAL PULMONARY INFECTION SCORE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EDITORIAL; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENTIAL ORGAN FAILURE ASSESSMENT SCORE;

CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 84883550522     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31829136df     Document Type: Editorial

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