title: Hospital saves lives by reducing ventilator-associated pneumonia.
abstract: Bay Regional Medical Center, Bay City, MI, is one of 14 hospitals participating in a national patient safety initiative that has reduced ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) deaths to zero for at least a year. It took six months before staff got used to the new procedures. The real buy-in occurred when they saw the evidence.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008824:Michigan / Q000453:epidemiology; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*