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OCTOBER 7, 2024

How Much Do We Know About Non-Ventilator HAP?


Originally published by our sister publication Infectious Disease Special Edition

By Ethan Covey

Despite significant consequences to both patients and healthcare systems, non-ventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia (NV-HAP) is not well defined, understudied and poorly prevented, according to an article published in the Journal of Hospital Infection.

Better prevention of NV-HAP, the authors said, would improve patient care worldwide, while saving health systems considerable costs (J Hosp Infect