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Costs and risk factors for ventilator-associated pneumonia in a Turkish University Hospital's Intensive Care Unit: A case-control study

BACKGROUND: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) which is an important part of all nosocomial infections in intensive care unit (ICU) is a serious illness with substantial morbidity and mortality, and increases costs of hospital care. We aimed to evaluate costs and risk factors for VAP in adult ICU...

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Autores principales: Erbay, Riza Hakan, Yalcin, Ata Nevzat, Zencir, Mehmet, Serin, Simay, Atalay, Habip
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC419357/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15109397
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-4-3