Sicker Patients In Ventilator-Associated Bacterial Pneumonia Could Make Trials Easier
Executive Summary
Public/private working group’s “interim considerations” of how best to design clinical trials for VABP and hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia would add symptom improvement to a mortality endpoint for the latter.
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