Attributable cost of methicillin resistance: an issue that is difficult to evaluate
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Estimating the consequences and the cost of methicillin resistance is a difficult challenge. Patients who develop methicillin-resistant ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) are very different from those who develop methicillin-sensitive VAP, and biased estimates are frequent. We reviewed some important confounding factors of which the reader should be aware.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Critical Care
دوره 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006