Trend in Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Rates Between 2005 and 2013

JAMA. 2016 Dec 13;316(22):2427-2429. doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.16226.

Authors

Mark L Metersky¹, Yun Wang², Michael Klompas³, Sheila Eckenrode⁴, Anila Bakullari⁴, Noel Eldridge⁵

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington.
² Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Qualidigm, Wethersfield, Connecticut.
⁵ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland.

PMID: 27835709
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2016.16226

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Age Distribution
Aged
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.
Female
Humans
Male
Medicare
Patient Safety
Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated / epidemiology*
Sex Distribution
United States / epidemiology