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Patient Selection for Clinical Investigation of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: Criteria for Evaluating Diagnostic Techniques

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Susan K. Pingleton ,
Jean-Yves Fagon  and
Kenneth V. Leeper Jr.
Susan K. Pingleton
Affiliation:
Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City Hopital Service de Rèanimation Medicale, Broussais, Paris, France Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The University of Tennessee, Memphis
Jean-Yves Fagon
Affiliation:
Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City Hopital Service de Rèanimation Medicale, Broussais, Paris, France Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The University of Tennessee, Memphis
Kenneth V. Leeper Jr.
Affiliation:
Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City Hopital Service de Rèanimation Medicale, Broussais, Paris, France Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The University of Tennessee, Memphis
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Nosocomial pneumonia in patients receiving ventilation is a common ICU occurrence. The exact frequency is not known because of the lack of specificity of the clinical diagnosis and existing standard diagnostic techniques. We have attempted to come to consensus in identifying a patient population with a clinical suspicion of nosocomial pneumonia and establishing a definition of pneumonia by which new diagnostic techniques can be compared.

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Proceedings of the First International Consensus Conference on the Clinical Investigation of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 13 , Issue 11 , November 1992 , pp. 635 - 639
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1992

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