Critical Care

Researchers from Harvard University, Medical Department report on findings in critical care

Published in Gastroenterology Week, May 26th, 2008

"Ventilator- associated pneumonia ( VAP) rates are advocated as a measure of hospitals' quality of care for critically ill patients. The standard definition used to measure VAP rates, however, is constructed of nonspecific clinical signs common to many common complications of critical care," researchers in the United States report.

"We created a model in which we estimated the probability of patients with 6 different complications of critical care fulfilling diagnostic criteria for VAP. We then calculated how the apparent prevalence of VAP varies depending on the prevalence of these other conditions in an intensive care unit. Despite keeping the true, underlying...

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Source: Gastroenterology Week (2008-05-26)

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