Staff education aimed at reducing ventilator-associated pneumonia
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Effect of an education program aimed at reducing the occurrence of ventilator-associated pneumonia.
OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to determine whether an education initiative could decrease the hospital rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia. DESIGN Pre- and postintervention observational study. SETTING Five intensive care units in Barnes-Jewish Hospital, an urban teaching hospital. PATIENTS Patients requiring mechanical ventilation who developed ventilator-associated pneumoni...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Microbiology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0022-2615,1473-5644
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.000368