... article as: Kollef et al., Medical resource utilization among patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia: pooled analysis of randomized studies of doripenem versus comparators Critical Care ... study design, analysis of results, interpretation of findings, and drafting of the paper Independent statistical analysis The accuracy of the data analysis was independently verified by William Shannon, ... comparator group (10 days) was generally consistent with that in previous cohort studies of patients with VAP (10 to 14 days) [1,23] Similarly, duration of hospitalization (26 days) was within the range...