Non-Device-Associated Pneumonia

The electronic surveillance definition for non-ventilator-associated hospital-acquired pneumonia had moderate correlation with the existing manual surveillance definition, suggesting electronic surveillance could be a “more practical” strategy.

Among more than 160,000 patients admitted to University of North Carolina hospitals during a recent 5-year period, non-device-associated, or ND, pneumonia was implicated in three of every four nosocomial pneumonia cases, with more than 60% occurring outside the ICU, indicating a possible need to expand infection prevention programs to include non-ventilated patients, researchers said.