Research Article
The Effect of a Nurse-Led Multidisciplinary Team on Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Rates
Table 1
Monthly ventilator-associated pneumonia rate from April 2009 to September 2012.
| Month | Pneumonia MICU | Vent. days | MICU |
| April 2009 | 2 | 147 | 13.605 | May 2009 | 2 | 118 | 16.949 | June 2009 | 0 | 112 | 0 | July 2009 | 2 | 126 | 15.873 | August 2009 | 0 | 116 | 0 | September 2009 | 3 | 174 | 17.241 | October 2009 | 0 | 154 | 0 | November 2009 | 3 | 222 | 13.514 | December 2009 | 1 | 173 | 5.78 | January 2010 | 1 | 185 | 5.405 | February 2010 | 0 | 182 | 0 | March 2010 | 0 | 156 | 0 | April 2010 | 0 | 140 | 0 | May 2010 | 1 | 186 | 5.376 | June 2010 | 2 | 136 | 14.706 | July 2010 | 1 | 129 | 7.752 | August 2010 | 0 | 150 | 0 | September 2010 | 2 | 156 | 12.821 | October 2010 | 0 | 155 | 0 | November 2010 | 0 | 88 | 0 | December 2010 | 0 | 137 | 0 | January 2011 | 0 | 115 | 0 | February 2011 | 0 | 224 | 0 | March 2011 | 0 | 151 | 0 | April 2011 | 0 | 151 | 0 | May 2011 | 0 | 218 | 0 | June 2011 | 0 | 116 | 0 | July 2011 | 1 | 184 | 5.435 | August 2011 | 0 | 78 | 0 | September 2011 | 0 | 131 | 0 | October 2011 | 0 | 185 | 0 | November 2011 | 0 | 128 | 0 | December 2011 | 0 | 110 | 0 | January 2012 | 0 | 124 | 0 | February 2012 | 0 | 142 | 0 | March 2012 | 0 | 183 | 0 | April 2012 | 0 | 167 | 0 | May 2012 | 0 | 85 | 0 | June 2012 | 0 | 98 | 0 | July 2012 | 0 | 105 | 0 | August 2012 | 0 | 105 | 0 | September 2012 | 0 | 128 | 0 |
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