Association of compliance of ventilator bundle with incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia and ventilator utilization among critical patients over 4 years

Annals of Thoracic Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 221-226

  Al Thaqafy, Majid S ^a   El Saed, Aiman ^a,b   Arabi, Yaseen M ^c   Balkhy, Hanan H ^a,d  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

^b MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

^d KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Bundle; health care associated infection; Institute for Healthcare Improvement; quality improvement; ventilator utilization; ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAUDI ARABIA; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; VENTILATED PATIENT; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; VENTILATOR BUNDLE COMPLIANCE;

EID: 84907015714     PISSN: 18171737     EISSN: 19983557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1817-1737.140132     Document Type: Article

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