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Optimizing surveillance for pediatric ventilator-associated events—But are they preventable?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2022

Anna C. Sick-Samuels Open the ORCID record for Anna C. Sick-Samuels [Opens in a new window]  and
Gregory P. Priebe
Anna C. Sick-Samuels*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
Gregory P. Priebe
Affiliation:
Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Author for correspondence: Anna Sick-Samuels, E-mail: [email protected]
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , February 2023 , pp. 175 - 177
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

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