Quality of Non-Bronchoscopic Bronchoalveolar Lavage Specimens and the Diagnosis of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

BACKGROUND: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a significant cause of hospital-acquired infection. Many institutions use National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) definitions for VAP surveillance. One criterion of the NHSN definition for possible VAP (PVAP) is a positive culture obtained via n...

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Publicado en:Open Forum Infect Dis
Autores principales: Tien, Vivian, DeFelice, Nathaniel, Romanelli, Anna, Brown, Jennifer
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5630763/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.1680
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