Clinician involvement for ventilator-associated pneumonia surveillance resulted in higher than expected incidence rate reported with implication for attributable mortality

Infect Dis (Lond). 2021 Feb;53(2):154-157. doi: 10.1080/23744235.2020.1839129. Epub 2020 Oct 24.

Authors

Nicolas Massart¹, Clarisse Dupin², Arnaud Mari¹, Matthieu Debarre¹, Nicolas Barbarot¹, François Legay¹, Eric Magalhaes¹, Guillaume Rieul¹, Pierre Fillatre¹

Affiliations

¹ Service de Réanimation, CH de St BRIEUC, Saint-Brieuc, France.
² Service de microbiologie, CH de St BRIEUC, Saint-Brieuc, France.

PMID: 33103562
DOI: 10.1080/23744235.2020.1839129

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Humans
Incidence
Intensive Care Units
Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated* / epidemiology
Prognosis
Respiration, Artificial