ArticleAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2023
Ventilator associated pneumonia in intensive care unit patients: a systematic review.
Article in Annals of medicine and surgery (2012), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
28 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effect of evidence-based education program with mentoring system for prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia on nurses' competency to improve quality care for patients in the intensive care unit: a quasi-experimental study in a tertiary hospital in Bangladesh.Frontiers in public health · 2025Trial
- Observational
- Comparative analysis of ventilator-associated pneumonia and ventilator-associated event surveillance systems: a retrospective observational study.Journal of Korean biological nursing science · 2026Article
- Preventing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Medical Staff in Chinese Hospitals.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2026Article
- Precision Approaches to Carbapenem-Resistant Infections in the ICU: Integrating Diagnostics, Stewardship, and Novel Therapies.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Real-time prediction of ventilator-associated pneumonia onset in ICU: development of a dynamic machine learning model.Journal of anesthesia, analgesia and critical care · 2026Article
- Ventilator-associated pneumonia among intensive care nurses: a multicenter cross-sectional study on knowledge and preventive measures in intensive care units of Mogadishu, Somalia.Frontiers in epidemiology · 2026Article
- Predictors of ICU Length of Stay in Patients with Severe Pneumonia: A Six-Year Retrospective Cohort Study Focusing on Traditional Chinese Medicine Adjuvant Therapy.International journal of general medicine · 2026Article
- Epidemiology and risk factors of multidrug-resistant organisms in a Chinese tertiary hospital: a 10-year retrospective cohort study across the COVID-19 policy phases, 2013-2023.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026Article
- Comparison of Two Different Doses of Ampicillin-Sulbactam as Part of Combination Therapy in the Treatment of Multidrug ResistantInfection and drug resistance · 2026Article
- Resistance Dynamics in a Romanian Critical Care Unit: Four Years of ESKAPE Pathogen Surveillance.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Observational
- Respiratory Microbiome of Carbapenem-ResistantPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Impact of respiratory viruses detection on outcomes in ventilated nosocomial pneumonia: an exposed/unexposed study.Annals of intensive care · 2025Article
- Review
- Distribution of MBL and serine-β-lactamase-producing pathogens in ventilator-associated pneumonia: insights into MDR and XDR strains.Iranian journal of microbiology · 2025Article
- 2024 Year in Review: Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia.Respiratory care · 2025Review
- Prevalence of Healthcare-Acquired Infections Among Adults in Intensive Care Units: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Health science reports · 2025Review
- Associations Between Candida andMicroorganisms · 2025Article
- Incidence, Risk Factors, Microbiology and Outcomes of VAP at an NCU in India: A Prospective Observational Study.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2025Article
- Development of a Weighted-Incidence Syndromic Combination Antibiogram (WISCA) to guide empiric antibiotic treatment for ventilator-associated pneumonia in a Mexican tertiary care university hospital.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the most common ICU acquired pneumonia among patients who are invasively intubated for mechanical ventilation. Patients with VAP suffer an increased mortality risk, financial burden, and length of stay in the hospital. The authors aimed to review the literature to describe the incidence, mortality, and microbiological evidence of VAP. We selected 13 peer-reviewed articles published from 1 January 2010 to 15 September 2022 from electronic databases for studies among adult or pediatric patients diagnosed with VAP expressed per thousand days admitted in the ICU. The VAP rates ranged from 7 to 43 per thousand days, varying among different countries of the world. A significant rate of mortality was observed in 13 studies ranging from 6.3 to 66.9%. Gram-negative organisms like Acinetobacter spp., Pseudomonas aeruginosa Gram-positive organisms like Staphylococcus aureus were frequently found. Our findings suggest an alarming situation of VAP among patients admitted to the intensive care units with increasing incidence and mortality. The review also found that VAP is more common in males and that there is a significant variation in the incidence and mortality rates of VAP among different countries. The findings of this review can inform the development of infection control and prevention strategies to reduce the burden of VAP. Thus, there is a crucial need for control and preventive measures like interventional studies and educational programs on staff training, hand-hygiene, and the appropriate use of ventilator bundle approach to curb this preventable threat that is increasing at an alarming rate.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.