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Predicting the risk of documented ventilator-associated pneumonia for benchmarking: Construction and validation of a score
Critical Care Medicine, 08/28/09
Zahar JR et al. – The ventilator–associated pneumonia rate may be useful for benchmarking provided the ratio of observed over theoretical rates is used. External validation of the prediction score is needed.
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