Multinational prospective cohort study over 24 years of the risk factors for ventilator-associated pneumonia in 187 ICUs in 12 Latin American countries
"Jimenez-Alvarez LF, Reyes LP, Alvarez-Moreno CA, Gomez K, Alarcon J, Oñate JM, Aguilar-Moreno LA, Bravo-Ojeda JS, Gutierrez-Tobar IF." 29/12/2022
A global research network for healthcare-associated infections (HAI) was established in 2002 when the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) was created [1]. Its major objective is to promote evidence based interventions of infection prevention in order to reduce the rate of HAIs and the mortality, bacterial resistance, excessive length of stay (LOS), and cost they cause [2]. International reports comprising data on ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and clinical outcomes were published by INICC in 2006 [3], 2008 [4], 2010 [5], 2012 [6], 2014 [7], 2016 [8], 2019 [9], and 2021 [10]. According to INICC published data [[3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10]], the VAP rates in Latin America and other lower and middle Income countries (LMIC) are much higher than those in high income countries.