Brief reportCost analysis and clinical impact of weekly ventilator circuit changes in patients in intensive care unit☆
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2001, ChestCitation Excerpt :Only literaturepublished since 1994 was used, as earlier articles may no longer beapplicable to present ICU practice. From these articles, we estimatedthe incidence of VAP as a function of the duration of, MV.111415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839 Rather than formally evaluate the quality ofeach of these studies, we relied on sensitivity analysis (see below) togauge the importance of uncertainty regarding these inputs.
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Presented in part of the 4th Meeting of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America, New Orleans, La., March 20–22, 1994.