Sustained reduction of ventilator-associated pneumonia rates using Real-Time course correction with a ventilator bundle compliance dashboard

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1261-1267

  Talbot, Thomas R ^a   Carr, Devin ^b   Lee Parmley, C ^a   Martin, Barbara J ^b   Gray, Barbara ^a   Ambrose, Anna ^b   Starmer, Jack ^a,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Community Health Systems ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MECHANICAL VENTILATOR; MOUTH HYGIENE; PROGRAM IMPACT; PROPHYLAXIS; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SEDATION; STRESS ULCER; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; ADOLESCENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTERRUPTED TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84958539621     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.180     Document Type: Article

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