• Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol · Oct 2014

    Effect of standardized surveillance of intensive care unit-acquired infections on ventilator-associated pneumonia incidence.

    • Thomas Bénet, René Ecochard, Nicolas Voirin, Anaïs Machut, Alain Lepape, Anne Savey, and Philippe Vanhems.
    • Infection Control and Epidemiology Unit, Edouard Herriot Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France.
    • Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2014 Oct 1;35(10):1290-3.

    AbstractIn a multicenter surveillance of intensive care unit (ICU)-acquired infections, adjusted ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) incidence diminished by -1.0% per year (95% confidence interval [CI], -1.8 to -0.2; P = .02) in ICUs with continuous surveillance but increased by +16.1% (95% CI, 0.5%-34.1%; P = .04) in the year following surveillance disruption, suggesting a preventive effect of surveillance on VAP.

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