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

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Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1448-1452

  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 R ^b,p,q   Hill, Nicholas S ^f,r   Horan, Teresa ^a   Kollef, Marin ^f,s   Levy, Mitchell ^f,t   Septimus, Edward ^u,v   Van Antwerpen, 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 HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (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

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Indexed keywords

ASSISTED VENTILATION; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FRACTION OF INSPIRED OXYGEN; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RELATED VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED COMPLICATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; NOTE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RELIABILITY; SUPPURATION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED CONDITION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

EID: 84887436278     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.13-1640     Document Type: Note

References (2)

1. Klompas M, Khan Y, Kleinman K, et al; CDC Prevention Epicenters Program. Multicenter evaluation of a novel surveillance paradigm for complications of mechanical ventilation. PLoS ONE. 2011;6(3):e18062.
2. Klompas M, Magill S, Robicsek A, et al; CDC Prevention Epicenters Program. Objective surveillance definitions for ventilator-associated pneumonia. Crit Care Med. 2012;40(12):3154-3161.