A simplified prevention bundle with dual hand hygiene audit reduces early-onset ventilator-associated pneumonia in cardiovascular surgery units: An interrupted time-series analysis

• Kang-Cheng Su,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC, Institute of Physiology, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC, Center of Sleep Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC

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• Yu Ru Kou,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Institute of Physiology, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC

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• Fang-Chi Lin,

  Roles Data curation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC

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• Chieh-Hung Wu,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC

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• Jia-Yih Feng,

  Roles Data curation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC

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• Shiang-Fen Huang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC

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• Tao-Fen Shiung,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision

  Affiliation Nursing Department, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC

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• Kwei-Chun Chung,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision

  Affiliation Nursing Department, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC

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• Yu-Hsiu Tung,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision

  Affiliation Nursing Department, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC

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• Kuang-Yao Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kuang-Yao Yang, Shi-Chuan Chang

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kyyang@vghtpe.gov.tw

  Affiliations Department of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC, Genome Research Center, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC, Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2803-980X

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• Shi-Chuan Chang

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kuang-Yao Yang, Shi-Chuan Chang

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC, Center of Sleep Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC, Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC

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