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Developing a New, National Approach to Surveillance for Ventilator-Associated Events: Executive Summary
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Developing a New, National Approach to Surveillance for Ventilator-Associated Events: Executive Summary

Shelley S Magill, Michael Klompas, Robert Balk, Suzanne M Burns, Clifford S Deutschman, Daniel Diekema, Scott Fridkin, Linda Greene, Alice Guh, David Gutterman, …
Infection control and hospital epidemiology, Vol.34(12), pp.1239-1243
12/2013
DOI: 10.1086/673463
PMID: 24225607
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Abstract

This article is an executive summary of a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Surveillance Definition Working Group, entitled “Developing a new, national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events” and published in Critical Care Medicine. The full report provides a comprehensive description of the Working Group process and outcome.In September 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) convened a Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) Surveillance Definition Working Group to organize a formal process for leaders and experts of key stakeholder organizations to discuss the challenges of VAP surveillance definitions and to propose new approaches to VAP surveillance in adult patients (Table 1).

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