Preventability of Hospital Deaths in Patients With Non-Ventilator Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Crude and adjusted mortality rates for patients with non-ventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia (NV-HAP) are among the highest of all healthcare-associated infections, leading to calls for greater prevention. Patients prone to NV-HAP, however, tend to be severely ill at baseline, making it unclear whether their high mortality rates are due to NV-HAP, their underlying conditions, or both.

Methods

Two infectious disease physicians conducted detailed medical record reviews on 150 randomly selected adults from 4 hospitals who died in-hospital following an NV-HAP event between April 2016 and May 2021. Reviewers abstracted risk factors, estimated the preventability of NV-HAP, identified causes of death, and adjudicated the preventability of death.

Results

The pat

SUBMITTER: Tatara AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11581695 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature