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Epidemiology and outcomes of ventilator-associated pneumonia in northern Brazil: an analytical descriptive prospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is considered the most common nosocomial infection in the intensive care unit (ICU), but its features are not fully known in many hospitals in Brazil. We identified clinical and epidemiological aspects associated with VAP in an intensive care unit (I...

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Autores principales: Resende, Marília M, Monteiro, Sílvio G, Callegari, Bianca, Figueiredo, Patrícia M S, Monteiro, Cinara R A V, Monteiro-Neto, Valério
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3599186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23510379
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-119