Y Hayashi, K Morisawa, M Klompas… - Clinical infectious …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Background. Hospitals and quality improvement agencies are vigorously focusing on reducing rates of hospital-acquired infection. Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is …
M Klompas - Respiratory care, 2019 - rc.rcjournal.com
In 2013, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention redefined surveillance for quality of care in ventilated patients by shifting from ventilator-associated …
Y Fan, F Gao, Y Wu, J Zhang, M Zhu, L Xiong - Critical care, 2016 - Springer
Background Ventilator-associated event (VAE) is a new surveillance paradigm for monitoring complications in mechanically ventilated patients in intensive care units (ICUs) …
JP Stevens, G Silva, J Gillis, V Novack, D Talmor… - Chest, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract BACKGROUND: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has implemented a new, multitiered definition for ventilator-associated events (VAEs) to replace …
Background Ventilator-associated conditions (VACs) and infection-related ventilator- associated complications (iVACs) are the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new …
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention replaced their longstanding ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) definitions with ventilator-associated event (VAE) …
M Klompas, K Kleinman, Y Khan… - Clinical infectious …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Abstract (See the Editorial Commentary by Magill and Fridkin, on pages 378–80.) Background. The complexity and subjectivity of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) …
Benchmarking the quality of care for ventilated patients has been an elusive goal for regulators and quality advocates for many years. The VAP rate is the usual metric proposed …
PMC Klein Klouwenberg, MSM van Mourik… - American journal of …, 2014 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Accurate surveillance of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is hampered by subjective diagnostic criteria. A novel surveillance paradigm for ventilator-associated events …