title: AHRQ tool designed to improve CAP clinical care.
abstract: Tool helps docs decide whether to hospitalize community-acquired pneumonia patients. Pneumonia Severity Index clinical algorithm developed by AHRQ team. Agency hopes to develop several more similar tools.
mesh_terms: D034201:Computers, Handheld; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical / Q000295:instrumentation*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D014481:United States