Preventability of Hospital Deaths in Patients With Non-Ventilator Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia
Most patients who die following NV-HAP have multiple, severe underlying comorbidities and difficult-to-modify risk factors for NV-HAP. Only 1 in 5 NV-HAPs that culminated in death and 1 in 12 deaths following NV-HAP were judged potentially preventable. This does not diminish the importance of NV-HAP prevention programs but informs expectations about the potential magnitude of their impact on hospital deaths.
Authors
- Laura DelloStritto
- Michael Klompas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8641-4498)
- Anna A. Agan
- Chanu Rhee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9537-4245)
- Anna Apostolopoulou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8874-0980)
- Alexander M. Tatara (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8579-4302)
Institutions
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Published
- 2024-08-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciae418
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Nosocomial Infections in ICU
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.42
Funders
- National Institutes of Health