Three-pronged process improvement gets great buy-in from physicians.
Pneumonia process improvement. St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa wanted to improve the process for the more than 600 people it sees every year with community-acquired pneumonia. One strategy was to keep the data-collection and analysis tasks simple and focused.
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D019985:Benchmarking; D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000188:drug therapy*; D004363:Drug Utilization; D005431:Florida; D006786:Hospitals, Urban; D006801:Humans; D018410:Pneumonia, Bacterial / Q000097:blood / Q000188:drug therapy*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents