The utility of endotracheal aspirate bacteriology in identifying mechanically ventilated patients at risk for ventilator associated pneumonia: a single-center prospective observational study.

BMC Infect Dis · 2019 · PMC6716855 · PMID 31464593

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.1808not close (p > 0.1)

The difference between progression to VAP from heavily colonized (32.4%) compared with lightly colonized (17.6%) did not reach statistical significance, possibly due to low sample size ( p = 0.1808).

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