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  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Infectious Disease Surveillance
  • Healthcare Quality Improvement

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  • Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) surveillance is crucial for monitoring healthcare quality and patient outcomes.
  • Existing surveillance criteria vary, necessitating direct comparisons for accurate quality assessment.
  • Concerns exist regarding preventable VAP cases and their contribution to mortality.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare the diagnostic rates and concordance of two widely used VAP surveillance criteria.
  • To evaluate the reliability of VAP surveillance as a quality indicator.

Main Methods:

  • A prospective cohort study involving 713 at-risk patients in two intensive care units.
  • Application of European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) and American Centers for Disease Control (CDC) VAP surveillance criteria.
  • Comparison of diagnostic rates and concordance (Cohen's Kappa) between the two criteria.

Main Results:

  • VAP incidence rates were similar: 4.6 per 1000 ventilation days (ECDC) vs. 5.4 per 1000 ventilation days (US CDC).
  • Concordance between diagnostic events was poor (Cohen's Kappa = 0.127), indicating significant disagreement.
  • The study identified a lack of inter-algorithm agreement in diagnosing VAP.

Conclusions:

  • While yielding similar overall VAP rates, the criteria exhibit poor concordance.
  • The lack of agreement challenges the use of current VAP surveillance algorithms as reliable indicators of care quality.
  • Further refinement of VAP surveillance criteria is needed to ensure consistent and accurate quality assessment.