Economic and Epidemiological Impact of an Improvement Plan for the Decrease of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in a Tertiary Hospital in Mexico.

Introduction: The objective of this work is to measure the economic and epidemiological impact of the implementation of a comprehensive quality improvement plan (CQIP) for the prevention and reduction of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in the adult intensive care unit in a Mexican hospital.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional, ambispective, comparative, analytical, observational study was conducted with epidemiological data on cases of health care-associated infections and with information from the Hospital Epidemiological Surveillance Unit from August 2017 to July 2018.

Results: Before to the implementation of the CQIP, there were a total of 26 VAPs, with a rate of 32.