Efficacy of adequate early antibiotic therapy in ventilator-associated pneumonia: influence of disease severity
- 9 June 2004
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Springer Nature in Intensive Care Medicine
- Vol. 30 (7), 1327-1333
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-004-2292-7
Abstract
To test the hypothesis that the outcome of patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) depends on both their baseline severity at VAP onset and the adequacy of empirical antibiotic therapy.Keywords
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