title: Developing a new national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events: executive summary.
abstract: In September 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) convened a Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) Surveillance Definition Working Group to organize a formal process for leaders and experts of key stakeholder organizations to discuss the challenges of VAP surveillance definitions and to propose new approaches to VAP surveillance in adult patients (Table 1). The charges to the Working Group were to (1) critically review a draft, streamlined VAP surveillance definition developed for use in adult patients; (2) suggest modifications to enhance the reliability and credibility of the surveillance definition within the critical care and infection prevention communities; and (3) propose a final adult surveillance definition algorithm to be implemented in the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), taking into consideration the potential future use of the definition algorithm in public reporting, interfacility comparisons, and pay-for-reporting and pay-for-performance programs.
authors.affiliation: Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA. Electronic address: smagill@cdc.gov.
authors.forename: Shelley S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Magill
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Klompas
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Balk
authors.forename: Suzanne M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Burns
authors.forename: Clifford S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Deutschman
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Diekema
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fridkin
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Greene
authors.forename: Alice
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guh
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gutterman
authors.forename: Beth
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hammer
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Henderson
authors.forename: Dean R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Hess
authors.forename: Nicholas S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Horan
authors.forename: Marin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kollef
authors.forename: Mitchell
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Levy
authors.forename: Edward
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Septimus
authors.forename: Carole
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: VanAntwerpen
authors.forename: Don
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.forename: Pamela
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lipsett
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002487:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.; D062665:Epidemiological Monitoring; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D053717:Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014481:United States
keywords: Critical care; Epidemiology; Intensive care unit; Mechanical ventilation; Public health; Ventilator-associated pneumonia