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Attributable Mortality of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: A Reappraisal Using Causal Analysis

M Bekaert, J Timsit, S Vansteelandt, P Depuydt, et al. Am J Respir Crit Care Med , 2011, Vol 184. pp 11331139

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The mortality due to VAP is debatable, reported as 0-70%, with this huge variation attributed to population and diagnostic heterogeneity, and the methodological difficulty created by the complex interplay between VAP and critical illness.

The authors use the statistical method...


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