Course of Participation after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.

Objectives: The study aimed to investigate participation problems in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), and the course of participation between 3 and 12 months post-SAH, and to identify determinants of this course.

Design: This is a prospective cohort study.

Setting: The study was done in the SAH outpatient clinic at the University Medical Center Utrecht.

Predicting pathogens causing ventilator-associated pneumonia using a Bayesian network model.

Background: We previously validated a Bayesian network (BN) model for diagnosing ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Here, we report on the performance of the model to predict microbial causes of VAP and to select antibiotics.

Methods: Pathogens were grouped into seven categories based upon the antibiotic susceptibility and epidemiological characteristics.