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Using a bundle approach to improve ventilator care processes and reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia
Resar R, Pronovost P, Haraden C, Simmonds et al. Using a bundle approach to improve ventilator care processes and reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2005;31(5):243-248.

The implementation of four evidence-based clinical interventions in the treatment of mechanically ventilated patients (the "ventilator bundle") reduces the risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia, thus reducing the rate of critically ill patient’s mortality and morbidity.



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