Developing a new, national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events*.

Shelley S. Magill,Michael Klompas,Robert A. Balk,Suzanne M. Burns,Clifford S. Deutschman,Daniel J. Diekema,Scott K. Fridkin,Linda Greene,Alice Guh,David D. Gutterman,Beth Hammer,David C. Henderson,Dean R. Hess,Nicholas S. Hill,Teresa C. Horan,Marin H. Kollef,Mitchell M. Levy,Edward J. Septimus,Carole VanAntwerpen,Don Wright,Pamela A. Lipsett

Developing a new, national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events*.

2013

Objective:To develop and implement an objective, reliable approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events in adult patients.Design:The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) convened a Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) Surveillance Definition Working Group in September 2011.

Keywords:

Intensive care medicine
Epidemiology
Mechanical ventilation
Critical care nursing
Intensive care unit
Public health
Disease
Ventilator-associated pneumonia
Medical emergency
Medicine
Emergency medicine
disease control
pneumonia ventilator associated

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