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Prolonged Acute Mechanical Ventilation
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Zilberberg MD et al. - In patients requiring PAMV, the SMR is inversely proportional to hospital MV volume. Conversely, PAMV group has a disproportionate effect on durations of MV, ICU and hospital LOS, and these marginal excesses increase with hospital MV volume quintile. Development of specific predictive equations for PAMV patients is recommended. Benchmarking measures must consider the case mix of STMV vs. PAMV patients.
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