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Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol · Jun 2012
Variability in mean duration of mechanical ventilation among community hospitals.
- Michael Klompas, Ken P Kleinman, and Anita Karcz.
- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA. mklompas@partners.org
- Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2012 Jun 1; 33 (6): 635-7.
AbstractWe explored intensive care units' mean ventilator-days per patient as a possible objective alternative to ventilator-associated pneumonia rates for assessing quality of care for ventilated patients. Mean ventilator-days per patient varied 4-fold within a network of community hospitals despite adjusting for multiple patient and hospital factors. Further assessment of this metric is warranted.
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