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Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Perspectives for the Healthcare Epidemiologist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Donald E. Craven  and
Kathleen A. Steger
Donald E. Craven*
Affiliation:
Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Division of Infectious Diseases, Maxwell Finland Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Kathleen A. Steger
Affiliation:
Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Division of Infectious Diseases, Maxwell Finland Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
*
Dowling 3 North, Boston Medical Center, 818 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02118
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Abstract

Nosocomial pneumonia is defined as an infection of lung parenchyma that was neither present nor incubating at the time of the patient's admission to the hospital. In the United States, hospital-acquired pneumonia is the second most common nosocomial infection and accounts for the most deaths from nosocomial infection. We describe how infection control personnel can use targeted surveillance to identify clusters of cases and to prevent pneumonia. We also discuss common pathogens that cause nosocomial pneumonia; ventilator-associated pneumonia; and strategies for prevention of hospital-acquired pneumonia.

Type
Practical Healthcare Epidemiology
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 18 , Issue 11 , November 1997 , pp. 783 - 795
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1997

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