Journal of Critical Care
Volume 23, Issue 1 , Pages 50-57 , March 2008

The value of pretest probability and modified clinical pulmonary infection score to diagnose ventilator-associated pneumonia

  • François Lauzier, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada
    • ,
  • Annie Ruest, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada
    • Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Deborah Cook, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Peter Dodek, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    • ,
  • Martin Albert, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
    • ,
  • Andrew F. Shorr, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, USA
    • ,
  • Andrew Day, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Evaluation Research Unit, Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Xuran Jiang, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Evaluation Research Unit, Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Daren Heyland, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Evaluation Research Unit, Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +613 549 6666x3339; fax: +613 548 1351.
    • ,
  • for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group

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☆ This study was supported by grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Physicians' Services Incorporated of Ontario, and by unrestricted grants from AstraZeneca and Bayer. François Lauzier and Annie Ruest are supported by a postdoctoral fellowship award from Université Laval. Annie Ruest is supported by a postdoctoral fellowship award from the Fonds de Recherche en Santé du Québec. Deborah Cook holds a Research Chair of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

PII: S0883-9441(08)00021-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2008.01.006

Journal of Critical Care
Volume 23, Issue 1 , Pages 50-57 , March 2008

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