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Descriptive analysis of ICU patients with hospital-acquired, ventilator-associated, and healthcare-associated pneumonia at four academic medical centers
- Source :
- Critical Care
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- BioMed Central, 2008.
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Abstract
- We developed an ICU performance improvement project to evaluate patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP), and healthcare-associated pneumonia (HCAP) using the 2005 American Thoracic Society/Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines. Below is a descriptive analysis of the patients enrolled and their outcomes.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Icu patients
Descriptive statistics
business.industry
Pneumonia ventilator associated
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
medicine.disease
respiratory tract diseases
Pneumonia
Healthcare associated
Daily practice
Antibiotic therapy
Emergency medicine
Poster Presentation
medicine
Intensive care medicine
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1466609X and 13648535
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- Suppl 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Critical Care
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....17ad2f508a4dc7d05e31ae6a752f41ee