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Discordance between Novel and Traditional Surveillance Definitions for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: Insights and Opportunities to Improve Patient Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Michael Klompas
Michael Klompas*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; and Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
*
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, 133 Brookline Avenue, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215 ([email protected]).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 35 , Issue 9 , 01 September 2014 , pp. 1196 - 1198
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© 2014 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.

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