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Patient to Nurse Ratio and Risk of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Critically Ill Patients

Stijn Blot, Mireia Llauradó‐Serra, Despoina Koulenti, Thiago Lisboa, Maria Deja, Pavlos Myrianthefs, Emilpaolo Manno, Arzu Topeli̇, Ignacio Martín‐Loeches, Jordi Rello

American Journal of Critical Care · 2010 · 58 citations · 34 references

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Abstract

A patient to nurse ratio of 1 to 1 appears to be associated with a lower risk for ventilator-associated pneumonia, but after adjustments for confounding covariates, the difference is not significant.

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