3 Ways Hospitals Benefit From New Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Paradigm

New definitions for the surveillance of patients with mechanical ventilation may help hospitals more accurately and effectively collect data, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Under the new framework, there are four different surveillance targets with different levels of acuity: ventilator-associated condition, infection-related ventilator-associated complication, possible pneumonia and probably pneumonia.

Click here to read the full story on mechanical ventilation data in Becker’s ASC Review.

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