Objectives: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shifted the focus of surveillance
paradigm for adult patients receiving mechanical ventilation, moving from the current …

Objectives: We sought to compare the performance of the 2008 Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention Pediatric criteria for ventilator-associated pneumonia, the 2013 Adult …

Objectives: The subjectivity and complexity of surveillance definitions for ventilator-
associated pneumonia preclude meaningful internal or external benchmarking and …

Background Ventilator-associated conditions (VACs) and infection-related ventilator-
associated complications (iVACs) are the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new …

Objectives: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released new
surveillance definitions for ventilator-associated events, including the new entities of …

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 …

Critical Care Medicine www. ccmjournal. org 723 edema, atelectasis, and other
complications account for many more deaths. VAC detects many of these complications in …

BACKGROUND: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released a
surveillance definition for respiratory complications in ventilated patients, ventilator …

Objectives: The new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention paradigm for ventilator-
associated events is intended to simplify surveillance of infectious and noninfectious …

Objectives: A newly proposed surveillance definition for ventilator-associated conditions
among neonatal and pediatric patients has been associated with increased morbidity and …