Contrary to CDC data, ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) rates in hospital ICUs have not declined significantly since 2005, according to a new study from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, in Farmington (JAMA 2016 Nov 11. [Epub ahead of print]).
From 2005 to 2013, the study found that about 10% of critically ill patients placed on a ventilator develop VAP. Researchers reviewed data compiled by the Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System from a representative sampling of 1,856