Guidelines for the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia in adults in Ireland
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Strategy for the Control of Antimicrobial Resistance in Ireland (SARI) national committee established a working group to produce national guidelines on the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia. Nominations were invited from relevant professional bodies. Membership of the working group is listed in Appendix 1. The committee first met in January 2009 and agreed terms of reference. A draft document was sent for consultation in June 2010 to a range of professional groups (Appendix 2). Several international evidence-based guidelines for prevention of nosocomial pneumonia have been published (BTS, ATS, Canadian, IDSA/SHEA). The terms of reference of the working group were to review these existing guidelines, update where new evidence was available and produce a single guideline for prevention of VAP in adults for use by Irish healthcare professionals working primarily in the acute care sector. However, most of the recommendations for prevention of VAP are applicable to mechanically ventilated patients based in the community. This document represents the expert opinion of the working group following a literature review and consultative process. It should be acknowledged that no attempt was made to grade the quality of the evidence that was used to develop these recommendations.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.013 | 0.028 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.015 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".