Improving the implementation of community-acquired pneumonia guidelines.
Best practice guidelines define the essential elements of care. They can improve the treatment of patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). Although guidelines advocating these elements are readily avail-able, the care received by patients with CAP remains heterogeneous. In the present report, the use of a -computer-based assistant to decision-making was -successfully developed and tested, improving the application of well-known guidelines.
Wright
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West Gippsland Hospital, Warragul, Victoria, Australia. aa.wright@bigpond.com
Maydom
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D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D015397:Program Evaluation