Ventilator-associated pneumonia—the wrong quality measure for benchmarking.

Michael Klompas; Richard Platt

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Ventilator-associated pneumonia—the wrong quality measure for benchmarking.

January 2, 2008

Klompas M, Platt R. Ann Intern Med. 2013;147(11):803-805.

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This commentary asserts that, until objective outcome measures are developed, ventilator-associated pneumonia rates should not be used as a measure to reward quality of care.

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