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Ventilator-associated respiratory infection in a resource-restricted setting: impact and etiology
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Ventilator-associated respiratory infection (VARI) is a significant problem in resource-restricted intensive care units (ICUs), but differences in casemix and etiology means VARI in resource-restricted ICUs may be different from that found in resource-rich units. Data from these settings are vital to plan preventative interventions and assess their cost-effectiveness, but few are available.We conducted a prospective observational study in four Vietnamese ICUs to assess the incidence and impac...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1186/s40560-017-0266-4
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Wellcome Trust
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Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
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Li Ka Shing Foundation
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Intensive Care Journal website
- Volume:
- 5
- Article number:
- 69
- Publication date:
- 2017-12-19
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-11-27
- DOI:
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2052-0492
- Pmid:
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29276607
- Source identifiers:
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812940
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- English
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pubs:812940
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- pubs:812940
- Deposit date:
- 2018-01-02
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- Phu et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- Copyright © 2017 The Authors. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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