This article is an executive summary of a report from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Surveillance Definition Working Group …

1Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Atlanta, Georgia; 2Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and …

Objective: Ventilator-associated event surveillance was introduced in the National
Healthcare Safety Network in 2013, replacing surveillance for ventilator-associated …

Abstract BACKGROUND: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has
implemented a new, multitiered definition for ventilator-associated events (VAEs) to replace …

Objectives: The subjectivity and complexity of surveillance definitions for ventilator-
associated pneumonia preclude meaningful internal or external benchmarking and …

Objectives: The primary aim of the study was to measure the test characteristics of the
National Health Safety Network ventilator-associated event/ventilator-associated condition …

Objective: The objective of this study was to compare the observed rates of ventilator-
associated pneumonia when using the National Healthcare Safety Network vs. the American …

In 2013, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention redefined
surveillance for quality of care in ventilated patients by shifting from ventilator-associated …

Background Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) surveillance is time consuming,
subjective, inaccurate, and inconsistently predicts outcomes. Shifting surveillance from …

Benchmarking the quality of care for ventilated patients has been an elusive goal for
regulators and quality advocates for many years. The VAP rate is the usual metric proposed …