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Prevention of hospital-acquired pneumonia in non-ventilated adult patients: a narrative review

BACKGROUND: Pneumonia is one of the leading hospital-acquired infections worldwide and has an important impact. Although preventive measures for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) are well known, less is known about appropriate measures for prevention of hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP). AIM: Th...

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Autores principales: Pássaro, Leonor, Harbarth, Stephan, Landelle, Caroline
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5109660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27895901
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-016-0150-3