Standardized treatment cuts pneumonia deaths.
By developing a set of guidelines for admission parameters, antibiotic administration, and treatment, multidisciplinary health care professionals in a Utah health system have significantly reduced the number of deaths and hospital admissions for patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Lengths of stay also were reduced. Before the introduction of these standards, more than 70 different antibiotics had been used statewide.
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010343:Patient Admission / Q000592:standards*; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000401:mortality; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D015272:Pulmonary Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014589:Utah / Q000453:epidemiology
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents