Chest
Volume 144, Issue 5, November 2013, Pages 1448-1452
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Developing a New, National Approach to Surveillance for Ventilator-Associated Events: Executive Summary

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Financial/nonfinancial disclosures: The authors have reported to CHEST the following conflicts: Dr Klompas received grant support from the CDC, US Food and Drug Administration, and the Office of the National Co-ordinator for Health IT. Dr Balk received grant support from the CDC and bioMérieux for participation in the EPIC CAP study (CDC) and the Procalcitonin in ICU antibiotic stewardship study (CDC and bioMérieux). Dr Deutschman received grant support from the National Institute of General

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Editor's Note: This article is an executive summary of a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Surveillance Definition Working Group, entitled “Developing a new, national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events” and published in Critical Care Medicine (Magill SS, Klompas M, Balk R, et al. Developing a new, national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events. Crit Care Med. 2013;41(11):2467–2475.). The full report provides a comprehensive description of the Working Group process and outcome.

For editorial comment see page 1429

Disclaimer: The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Association for Respiratory Care, the Association of Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, or the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Funding/Support: The work described herein was supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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