Publications

suspected ventilator-associated pneumonia in cardiac patients admitted to the coronary care unit.	to determine the incidence, risk factors, associated pathogens, and outcome of ventilator-associated pneumonia (vap) in patients admitted to a coronary care unit (ccu).	2006	16438476
influence of referral bias on the clinical characteristics of patients with gram-negative bloodstream infection.	summaryreferral bias can influence the results of studies performed at tertiary-care centres. in this study, we evaluated demographic and microbiological factors that influenced referral of patients with gram-negative bloodstream infection (bsi). we identified 2919 and 846 unique patients with gram-negative bsi in a referral cohort of patients treated at mayo clinic hospitals and a population-based cohort of olmsted county, minnesota, residents between 1 january 1998 and 31 december 2007, respec ...	2011	21281552