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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL
Volume 48, Issue 7, Pages 828-830Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2020.02.015
Keywords
Ventilator-associated pneumonia; Infection prevention; Multidisciplinary team; VAE prevention; VAE reduction
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Acute care hospitals are requested to perform ongoing surveillance of all patients undergoing mechanical ven- tilation for ventilator-associated events (VAEs), a serious and often devastating complication of the life-saving modality. Poor performance metrics in VAE rates were recognized at a tertiary care hospital in Hartford, Connecticut and as a result, a multidisciplinary team was developed in 2015 to analyze hospital and system data. The program utilized a multifaceted approach to reliably identify and subsequently prevent VAEs. (C) 2020 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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