Multicenter evaluation of a novel surveillance paradigm for complications of mechanical ventilation.

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) surveillance is time consuming, subjective, inaccurate, and inconsistently predicts outcomes. Shifting surveillance from pneumonia in particular to complications in general might circumvent the VAP definition's subjectivity and inaccuracy, facilitate electr...

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Main Authors: Michael Klompas, Yosef Khan, Kenneth Kleinman, R Scott Evans, James F Lloyd, Kurt Stevenson, Matthew Samore, Richard Platt, CDC Prevention Epicenters Program
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-03-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3062570?pdf=render