Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures for Establishing the Microbial Etiology of Ventilator‐Associated Pneumonia for Clinical Trials: The Pros for Quantitative Cultures
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- 1 August 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 51 (S1) , S88-S92
Abstract
Use of only clinical criteria for enrolling patients in clinical trials leads to inclusion of many patients who have no pulmonary infection, which caKeywords
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- Guidelines for the Management of Adults with Hospital-acquired, Ventilator-associated, and Healthcare-associated PneumoniaAmerican Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2005