By Ethan Covey
Despite significant consequences to both patients and healthcare systems, non-ventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia (NV-HAP) is not well defined, understudied and poorly prevented, according to an article published in the Journal of Hospital Infection.
Better prevention of NV-HAP, the authors said, would improve patient care worldwide, while saving health systems considerable costs (J Hosp Infect 2024;151:201-212). Infectious disease professionals and health systems just need the