Journal article
Developing a New, National Approach to Surveillance for Ventilator-Associated Events: Executive Summary
Infection control and hospital epidemiology, Vol.34(12), pp.1239-1243
12/2013
DOI: 10.1086/673463
PMID: 24225607
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).
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Developing a New, National Approach to Surveillance for Ventilator-Associated Events: Executive Summary
- Creators
- Shelley S MagillMichael KlompasRobert BalkSuzanne M BurnsClifford S DeutschmanDaniel DiekemaScott FridkinLinda GreeneAlice GuhDavid GuttermanBeth HammerDavid HendersonDean R HessNicholas S HillTeresa HoranMarin KollefMitchell LevyEdward SeptimusCarole VanAntwerpenDon WrightPamela Lipsett
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Infection control and hospital epidemiology, Vol.34(12), pp.1239-1243
- DOI
- 10.1086/673463
- PMID
- 24225607
- NLM abbreviation
- Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
- ISSN
- 0899-823X
- eISSN
- 1559-6834
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/2013
- Academic Unit
- Infectious Diseases; Pathology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984003046302771
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