Duration of Mechanical Ventilation

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Indicators
Indicator:	Duration of Mechanical Ventilation
Created/Raw:	Created
Program:	not stated
Start Date:	Jan 1 2013
End Date:
Reports:	Critical Care Program Quality Indicator Report

• Cargo

• SMW:
  • "not stated" is not in the list (Critical Care, Medicine, Critical Care and Medicine) of allowed values for the "IndicatorProgram" property.

• Categories

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QI domain

• Effective
• Efficient

Reported as

Days (mean)

Significance

Ventilation duration can be considered a surrogate marker of interrelated factors such as : ICU patients characteristics (acuity, comorbidity, premorbid functional status), structural and process-related aspects of ICU care (staffing ratios, staff expertise, processes for effective ventilator). This is related to QA Infection VAP.