Clinical epidemiology and outcomes of ventilator-associated pneumonia in critically ill adult patients: protocol for a large-scale systematic review and planned meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An increasing number of studies have investigated the clinical epidemiology and outcomes of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in intensive care units. However, these findings have not been clearly defined in broad subgroups of mechanically ventilated adults. Hence, this protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis is designed to better understand the clinical and epidemiological features of VAP in these patient populations by establishing its overall prognosis of and risk factors for morbidity and mortality and to determine the differences in clinical and economic outcomes between VAP and non-VAP patients.

Methods

This present review will systematically search available full-text articles without date and language restrictions and indexed in PubMed, CENT

SUBMITTER: Gutierrez JMM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6642735 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature