| Title |
Multicenter Evaluation of a Novel Surveillance Paradigm for Complications of Mechanical Ventilation
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, March 2011
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0018062 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Michael Klompas, Yosef Khan, Kenneth Kleinman, R. Scott Evans, James F. Lloyd, Kurt Stevenson, Matthew Samore, Richard Platt, for the CDC Prevention Epicenters Program |
| Abstract |
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) surveillance is time consuming, subjective, inaccurate, and inconsistently predicts outcomes. Shifting surveillance from pneumonia in particular to complications in general might circumvent the VAP definition's subjectivity and inaccuracy, facilitate electronic assessment, make interfacility comparisons more meaningful, and encourage broader prevention strategies. We therefore evaluated a novel surveillance paradigm for ventilator-associated complications (VAC) defined by sustained increases in patients' ventilator settings after a period of stable or decreasing support. |
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| United States | 2 | 50% |
| Russia | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 1 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
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| Scientists | 2 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 25% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 25% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 3 | 2% |
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 155 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 26 | 16% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 22 | 14% |
| Other | 18 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 12 | 8% |
| Other | 33 | 21% |
| Unknown | 37 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 84 | 53% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 6% |
| Engineering | 6 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 9 | 6% |
| Unknown | 40 | 25% |