VAP: just how good a benchmark is it really?
VAP shares symptoms with several conditions common to the ICU. Diagnosis is considered to be more reliable in the outpatient setting. New measures should reflect the totality of complications that can affect ventilated patients in addition to pneumonia.
Michael
Klompas
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D019985:Benchmarking / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000592:standards; D053717:Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated