Assessment of ventilator-associated events using the geometric distribution

Ragheb Assaly; William R Barnett; Fadi Safi; Sadik Khuder; John Macko

doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2016.12.004

Assessment of ventilator-associated events using the geometric distribution

Am J Infect Control. 2017 May 1;45(5):566-568. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2016.12.004. Epub 2017 Jan 13.

Authors

Ragheb Assaly¹, William R Barnett², Fadi Safi², Sadik Khuder³, John Macko⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH. Electronic address: ragheb.assaly@utoledo.edu.
² Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH.
³ School of Population Health, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH.
⁴ Department of Pharmacy, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH.

PMID: 28089674
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2016.12.004

Abstract

Hospital-acquired rare events, such as nosocomial infections and other low-occurring incidents, in the clinical environment are difficult to monitor using traditional quality indicators. Using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention definition of ventilator-associated events, we demonstrate an alternative method for assessment of rare events.

Keywords: Health care-associated infections; Performance measures; Probability; Surveillance.

MeSH terms

Epidemiological Monitoring*
Health Facilities*
Humans
Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated / epidemiology*