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Michael Klompas

Researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital

Publications -  349
Citations -  21009

Michael Klompas is an academic researcher from Brigham and Women's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Pneumonia. The author has an hindex of 62, co-authored 290 publications receiving 14548 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael Klompas include Harvard University & University of Manitoba.

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Complications of Mechanical Ventilation — The CDC's New Surveillance Paradigm

TL;DR: New CDC surveillance definitions for ventilated patients aim both to broaden the focus of surveillance beyond pneumonia to include other common complications and to increase objectivity to facilitate automation, improve comparability, and minimize gaming.
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Toward Improved Surveillance: The Impact of Ventilator-Associated Complications on Length of Stay and Antibiotic Use in Patients in Intensive Care Units

TL;DR: VAC events were associated with significantly increased ICU length of stay, duration of mechanical ventilation, and consumption of broad-spectrum antibiotics but not with longer hospital stays or ICU mortality, suggesting VAC may be a useful surveillance tool.
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A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Updates

TL;DR: The 2014 updates to the Compendium were created to provide acute care hospitals with up-to-date, practical, expert guidance to assist in prioritizing and implementing their HAI prevention efforts.
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Comparison of trends in sepsis incidence and coding using administrative claims versus objective clinical data

TL;DR: Coding for sepsis has become more inclusive, and septicemia diagnoses are increasingly being applied to patients without positive blood cultures, which likely explain some of the apparent rise in sepsi incidence and underscore the need for more reliable surveillance methods.