Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Risk factors for the development of nosocomial pneumonia and mortality on intensive care units: application of competing risks models. | Available online http content 1 2 2 R44 Research Risk factors for the development of nosocomial pneumonia and mortality on intensive care units application of competing risks models Martin Wolkewitz1 Ralf Peter Vonberg2 Hajo Grundmann3 Jan Beyersmann1 Petra Gastmeier2 Sina Barwolff4 Christine Geffers4 Michael Behnke4 Henning Ruden4 and Martin Schumacher1 institute of Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics University Medical Center Freiburg Freiburg Germany institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology Medical School Hannover Hannover Germany 3European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System National Institute for Public Health and the Environment Bilthoven The Netherlands 4Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine Charité - University Medicine Berlin Germany Corresponding author Martin Wolkewitz wolke@ Received 9 Nov 2007 Revisions requested 19 Dec 2007 Revisions received 7 Feb 2008 Accepted 2 Apr 2008 Published 2 Apr 2008 Critical Care 2008 12 R44 doi cc6852 This article is online at http content 12 2 R44 2008 Wolkewitz et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Introduction Pneumonia is a very common nosocomial infection in intensive care units ICUs . Many studies have investigated risk factors for the development of infection and its consequences. However the evaluation in most of theses studies disregards the fact that there are additional competing events such as discharge or death. Methods A prospective cohort study was conducted over 18 months in five intensive care units at one university hospital. All patients that were admitted for at least 2 days were included and surveillance of nosocomial pneumonia .
