Open AccessClinical and Economic Outcomes of Hospital Acquired Pneumonia in Intra-Abdominal Surgery Patients
Author(s) -
Charis Thompson,
Martin A. Makary,
Todd Dorman,
Peter J. Pronovost
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/01.sla.0000207097.38963.3b
Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , abdominal surgery , pneumonia , surgery , emergency medicine
To measure the clinical and economic impact of postoperative hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) and to identify risk factors for the development of HAP.