The "last breath" of the ventilator-associated pneumonia surveillance definition*

Crit Care Med. 2014 Mar;42(3):722-3. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000436119.32758.69.

Authors

Michael Klompas¹, Andre C Kalil

Affiliation

¹ Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute; and, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE.

PMID: 24534956
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000436119.32758.69

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. / standards*
Female
Hospitals / standards*
Humans
Male
Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated / diagnosis*
Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated / epidemiology*
Quality Indicators, Health Care*