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ArticleERJ open research2018

Summary of the international clinical guidelines for the management of hospital-acquired and ventilator-acquired pneumonia.

Antoni Torres, Michael S Niederman, Jean Chastre, Santiago Ewig, Patricia Fernandez-Vandellos, Hakan Hanberger, Marin Kollef, Gianluigi Li Bassi, Carlos M Luna, Ignacio Martin-Loeches and 6 more

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Article in ERJ open research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Antoni TorresDept of Pulmonology, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, IDIBAPS, CIBERES Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Michael S NiedermanDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Jean ChastreRéanimation Médicale, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
Santiago EwigThoraxzentrum Ruhrgebiet, Kliniken für Pneumologie und Infektiologie, Herne und Bochum, Germany.
Patricia Fernandez-VandellosIDIBAPS, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Barcelona, Spain.
Hakan HanbergerDept of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
Marin KollefPulmonary and Critical Care Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA.
Gianluigi Li BassiDept of Pulmonology, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, IDIBAPS, CIBERES Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Carlos M LunaDept of Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases Division, Hospital de Clínicas "José de San Martin", Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Ignacio Martin-LoechesDept of Clinical Medicine, Wellcome Trust - HRB Clinical Research Facility, St. James's Hospital, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES).
J Artur PaivaEmergency and Intensive Care Dept, Centro Hospitalar São João EPE, Porto, Portugal.
Robert C ReadNIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, UK.
David RigauIberoamerican Cochrane Center, Barcelona, Spain.
Jean François TimsitIAME, INSERM UMR 1137, Medical and Infectious Diseases Intensive Care Unit, Paris Diderot University and Bichat Hospital, Paris, France.
Tobias WelteCAPNETZ STIFTUNG, Hannover, Germany.
Richard WunderinkDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/N013204/1Medical Research Council MR/N026993/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID29977898
PMCPMC6018155

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