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Complications of Mechanical Ventilation — The CDC's New Surveillance Paradigm

Michael KlompasDepartment of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, USA
2013en
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Abstract

New CDC surveillance definitions for ventilated patients aim both to broaden the focus of surveillance beyond pneumonia to include other common complications and to increase objectivity to facilitate automation, improve comparability, and minimize gaming.

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