Developing a new, national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events: executive summary

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA. Electronic address: smagill@cdc.gov.
• ² Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA; Infection Control Department, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, Arlington, VA.
• ³ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Rush University School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; Critical Care Societies Collaborative-American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine.
• ⁴ Critical Care Societies Collaborative-American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine; School of Nursing, Critical and Acute Care, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
• ⁵ Critical Care Societies Collaborative-American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine; Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
• ⁶ Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA; Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee Surveillance Working Group, Atlanta, GA.
• ⁷ Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
• ⁸ Infection Prevention and Control Department, Rochester General Health System, Rochester, NY; Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Washington, DC.
• ⁹ Critical Care Societies Collaborative-American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine; Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
• ¹⁰ Critical Care Societies Collaborative-American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine; Department of Cardiology, Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI.
• ¹¹ Hospital Epidemiology and Quality Improvement, The Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
• ¹² Department of Respiratory Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Department of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; American Association for Respiratory Care, Irving, TX.
• ¹³ Critical Care Societies Collaborative-American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA.
• ¹⁴ Critical Care Societies Collaborative-American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
• ¹⁵ Critical Care Societies Collaborative-American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine; Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI.
• ¹⁶ Department of Internal Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, TX; Infectious Diseases Society of America, Arlington, VA.
• ¹⁷ New York State Department of Health, Bureau of Healthcare-Associated Infections, Albany, NY; Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, Atlanta, GA.
• ¹⁸ Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.
• ¹⁹ Critical Care Societies Collaborative-American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine; Department of Surgery, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.