Value of lower respiratory tract surveillance cultures to predict bacterial pathogens in ventilator-associated pneumonia: Systematic review and diagnostic test accuracy meta-analysis

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 365-375

  Brusselaers, Nele ^a,b   Labeau, Sonia ^a,c   Vogelaers, Dirk ^a   Blot, Stijn ^a,c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Diagnostic test accuracy meta analysis; Multidrug resistance; Surveillance cultures; VAP; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PSEUDOMONAS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT DURATION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84884211665     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-012-2759-x     Document Type: Review

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