Shichao Zhu, Lin Cai, Chunhua Ma, Hongmei Zeng, Hua Guo, Xiaoqing Mao, Chenghui Zeng, Xiaohong Li, Hua Zhao, Yongfang Liu, Shilian Liu, Juhua Sun, Ling Zhang, Tingyong Peng, Mina Dong, Liping Chen, Zhiyong Zong
OBJECTIVE: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed an approach to ventilator-associated events (VAE) surveillance. Using these methods, this study was performed to investigate VAE incidences and to test whether VAEs are associated with poorer outcomes in China. DESIGN: A 4-month, prospective multicenter surveillance study between April and July 2013. SETTING: Our study included 15 adult intensive care units (ICUs) of 15 hospitals in China...
December 2015: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology