title: Developing a new, national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events: executive summary.
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.affiliation: Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA; Infection Control Department, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, Arlington, VA.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Klompas
authors.affiliation: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Rush University School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; Critical Care Societies Collaborative-American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Balk
authors.affiliation: Critical Care Societies Collaborative-American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine; School of Nursing, Critical and Acute Care, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
authors.forename: Suzanne M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Burns
authors.affiliation: Critical Care Societies Collaborative-American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine; Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
authors.forename: Clifford S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Deutschman
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA; Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee Surveillance Working Group, Atlanta, GA.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Diekema
authors.affiliation: Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fridkin
authors.affiliation: Infection Prevention and Control Department, Rochester General Health System, Rochester, NY; Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Washington, DC.
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Greene
authors.affiliation: Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
authors.forename: Alice
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guh
authors.affiliation: Critical Care Societies Collaborative-American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine; Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gutterman
authors.affiliation: Critical Care Societies Collaborative-American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine; Department of Cardiology, Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI.
authors.forename: Beth
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hammer
authors.affiliation: Hospital Epidemiology and Quality Improvement, The Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Henderson
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Department of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; American Association for Respiratory Care, Irving, TX.
authors.forename: Dean R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Hess
authors.affiliation: Critical Care Societies Collaborative-American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA.
authors.forename: Nicholas S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.affiliation: Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Horan
authors.affiliation: Critical Care Societies Collaborative-American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
authors.forename: Marin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kollef
authors.affiliation: Critical Care Societies Collaborative-American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine; Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI.
authors.forename: Mitchell
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Levy
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, TX; Infectious Diseases Society of America, Arlington, VA.
authors.forename: Edward
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Septimus
authors.affiliation: New York State Department of Health, Bureau of Healthcare-Associated Infections, Albany, NY; Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, Atlanta, GA.
authors.forename: Carole
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: VanAntwerpen
authors.affiliation: Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.
authors.forename: Don
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.affiliation: Critical Care Societies Collaborative-American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine; Department of Surgery, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
authors.forename: Pamela
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lipsett
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000009:adverse effects*; D055397:Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury / Q000453:epidemiology*