Developing a new, national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2467-2475

  Magill, Shelley S ^a   Klompas, Michael ^b,c,d   Balk, Robert ^e,f   Burns, Suzanne M ^f,g   Deutschman, Clifford S ^f,h   Diekema, Daniel ^i,j   Fridkin, Scott ^a   Greene, Linda ^k,l   Guh, Alice ^a   Gutterman, David ^f,m   Hammer, Beth ^f,n   Henderson, David ^o   Hess, Dean ^b,p,q   Hill, Nicholas S ^p,r   Horan, Teresa ^a   Kollef, Marin ^f,s   Levy, Mitchell ^f,t   Septimus, Edward ^u,v   Vanantwerpen, Carole ^w,x   Wright, Don ^y   Lipsett, Pamela ^f,z   more..

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America   (United States)

^e RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^f American Association of Critical Care Nurses   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^j Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee Surveillance Working Group   (United States)

^k Rochester General Health System   (United States)

^l Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology Inc   (United States)

^m MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

ⁿ CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^o NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^p MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^q American Association for Respiratory Care   (United States)

^r TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^s WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^t BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^v Infectious Diseases Society of America Emerging Infections Network   (United States)

^w NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^x Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists   (United States)

^y Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion   (United States)

^z JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

Critical care; Epidemiology; Intensive care unit; Mechanical ventilation; Public health; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUPPURATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VENTILATED PATIENT; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ALGORITHMS; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PATIENT SAFETY; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; UNITED STATES; VENTILATOR-INDUCED LUNG INJURY;

EID: 84887045756     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182a262db     Document Type: Review

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