Improving ventilator-associated event surveillance in the national healthcare safety network and addressing knowledge gaps: Update and review

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 394-400

  Magill, Shelley S ^a   Rhodes, Barry ^a   Klompas, Michael ^b,c  

^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)

Author keywords

Critical care; Mechanical ventilator; Pneumonia; Public health surveillance; Ventilator associated

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 84905870682     PISSN: 09517375     EISSN: 14736527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QCO.0000000000000083     Document Type: Review

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