Preventable proportion of intubation-associated pneumonia: Role of adherence to a care bundle.

The aim of the present study was to estimate the preventable proportion of Intubation-Associated Pneumonia (IAP) in the Intensive Care Units (ICUs) participating in the Italian Nosocomial Infections Surveillance in ICUs (SPIN-UTI) network, taking into account differences in intrinsic patients'...

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Main Authors: Antonella Agodi, Martina Barchitta, Annalisa Quattrocchi, Emiliano Spera, Giovanni Gallo, Francesco Auxilia, Silvio Brusaferro, Marcello Mario D'Errico, Maria Teresa Montagna, Cesira Pasquarella, Stefano Tardivo, Ida Mura, GISIO-SItI working group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5587225?pdf=render