Staffing level: a determinant of late-onset ventilator-associated pneumonia
Open Access
- 1 January 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Critical Care
- Vol. 11 (4), R80
- https://doi.org/10.1186/cc5974
Abstract
The clinical and economic burden of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is uncontested. We conducted the present study to determine whether low nurse-to-patient ratio increases the risk for VAP and whether this effect is similar for early-onset and late-onset VAP.Keywords
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