Developing a New, National Approach to Surveillance for Ventilator-Associated Events: Executive Summary

Shelley S Magill; Michael Klompas; Robert Balk; Suzanne M Burns; Clifford S Deutschman; Daniel Diekema; Scott Fridkin; Linda Greene; Alice Guh; David Gutterman; Beth Hammer; David Henderson; Dean R Hess; Nicholas S Hill; Teresa Horan; Marin Kollef; Mitchell Levy; Edward Septimus; Carole VanAntwerpen; Don Wright; Pamela Lipsett

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Developing a New, National Approach to Surveillance for Ventilator-Associated Events: Executive Summary

Shelley S Magill, Michael Klompas, Robert Balk, Suzanne M Burns, Clifford S Deutschman, Daniel Diekema, Scott Fridkin, Linda Greene, Alice Guh, David Gutterman, Beth Hammer, David Henderson, Dean R Hess, Nicholas S Hill, Teresa Horan, Marin Kollef, Mitchell Levy, Edward Septimus, Carole VanAntwerpen, Don Wright and Pamela Lipsett

Respiratory Care November 2013, 58 (11) 1985-1989; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4187/respcare.02759

Shelley S Magill

1. Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.

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Michael Klompas

2. Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA.

3. Infection Control Department, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.

4. Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, Arlington, VA.

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Robert Balk

5. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Rush University School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.

6. Critical Care Societies Collaborative—American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine.

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Suzanne M Burns

6. Critical Care Societies Collaborative—American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine.

7. School of Nursing, Critical and Acute Care, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

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Clifford S Deutschman

6. Critical Care Societies Collaborative—American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine.

8. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

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Daniel Diekema

9. Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA.

10. Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee Surveillance Working Group, Atlanta, GA.

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Scott Fridkin

1. Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.

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Linda Greene

11. Infection Prevention and Control Department, Rochester General Health System, Rochester, NY.

12. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Washington, DC.

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Alice Guh

1. Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.

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David Gutterman

6. Critical Care Societies Collaborative—American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine.

13. Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.

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Beth Hammer

6. Critical Care Societies Collaborative—American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine.

14. Department of Cardiology, Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI.

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David Henderson

15. Hospital Epidemiology and Quality Improvement, The Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.

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Dean R Hess

16. Department of Respiratory Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.

17. Department of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

18. American Association for Respiratory Care, Irving, TX.

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Nicholas S Hill

6. Critical Care Societies Collaborative—American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine.

19. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA.

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Teresa Horan

1. Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.

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Marin Kollef

6. Critical Care Societies Collaborative—American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine.

20. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.

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Mitchell Levy

6. Critical Care Societies Collaborative—American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine.

21. Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI.

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Edward Septimus

22. Department of Internal Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, TX.

23. Infectious Diseases Society of America, Arlington, VA.

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Carole VanAntwerpen

24. New York State Department of Health, Bureau of Healthcare-Associated Infections, Albany, NY.

25. Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, Atlanta, GA.

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Don Wright

26. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.

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Pamela Lipsett

6. Critical Care Societies Collaborative—American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine.

27. Department of Surgery, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

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Ventilator-associated events surveillance definition algorithm. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/acute-care-hospital/vae/index.html. PEEP = positive end-expiratory pressure. F_IO₂ = fraction of inspired oxygen. VAP = ventilator-associated pneumonia. CFU = colony-forming unit.

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