Understanding healthcare provider preferences for ordering respiratory cultures to diagnose ventilator associated pneumonia: A discrete choice experiment

• Main Authors: Blaine Kenaa (Author), Nathan N. O'Hara (Author), Lyndsay M. O'Hara (Author), Kimberly C. Claeys (Author), Surbhi Leekha (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Cambridge University Press, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Objective: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) can be overdiagnosed on the basis of positive respiratory cultures in the absence of clinical findings of pneumonia. We determined the perceived diagnostic importance of 6 clinical attributes in ordering a respiratory culture to identify oppo...