• Am. J. Crit. Care · Nov 2013

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

    • Shelley S Magill, Michael Klompas, Robert Balk, Suzanne M Burns, Clifford S Deutschman, Daniel Diekema, Scott Fridkin, Linda Greene, Alice Guh, David Gutterman, Beth Hammer, David Henderson, Dean R Hess, Nicholas S Hill, Teresa Horan, Marin Kollef, Mitchell Levy, Edward Septimus, Carole Vanantwerpen, Don Wright, and Pamela Lipsett.
    • Shelley S. Magill, Scott Fridkin, Alice Guh, and Teresa Horan are from the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia. Michael Klompas is from the Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and the Infection Control Department, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts and represents the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, Arlington, Virginia. Robert Balk is from the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Rush University School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois and represents the Critical Care Societies Collaborative.
    • Am. J. Crit. Care. 2013 Nov 1;22(6):469-73.

    AbstractThis 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-Associatied Events," published in Critical Care Medicine, by Magill SS, Klompas M, Balk R, Burns SM, Deutschman CS, et al. 2013;41(11):2467-2475. The full report provides a comprehensive description of the Working Group's process and outcome.

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