Trial reportThe American journal of medicine2011
Processes of care and outcomes for community-acquired pneumonia.
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- Low thoracic skeletal muscle is a risk factor for 6-month mortality of severe community-acquired pneumonia in older men in intensive care unit.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2024Article
- Aetiology of severe community acquired pneumonia in adults identified by combined detection methods: a multi-centre prospective study in China.Emerging microbes & infections · 2022Article
- Perceived Competition and Process of Care in Rural China.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2020Article
- Cost-Effectiveness Of Culture-Based Versus Empirical Antibiotic Treatment For Hospitalized Adults With Community-Acquired Pneumonia In Indonesia: A Real-World Patient-Database Study.ClinicoEconomics and outcomes research : CEOR · 2019Article
- Assessment of factors that influence timely administration of initial antibiotic dose using collaborative process mapping at a referral hospital in Malawi: a case study of pneumonia patients.BMC infectious diseases · 2018Observational
- Community-acquired pneumonia: the elusive quest for the best treatment strategy.Journal of thoracic disease · 2016Article
- An official American thoracic society workshop report: developing performance measures from clinical practice guidelines.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2014Article
- Major advances in managing community-acquired pneumonia.F1000prime reports · 2013Review
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- Associations between the organisation of stroke services, process of care, and mortality in England: prospective cohort study.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2013Article
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Abstract
backgroundAlthough processes of care are common proxies for health care quality, their associations with medical outcomes remain uncertain.
methodsFor 2076 patients hospitalized with pneumonia from 32 emergency departments, we used multilevel logistic regression modeling to assess independent associations between patient outcomes and the performance of 4 individual processes of care (assessment of oxygenation, blood cultures, and rapid initiation [<4 hours] and appropriate selection of antibiotic therapy) and the cumulative number of processes of care performed.
resultsOverall, 141 patients (6.8%) died. Mortality was 0.3% to 1.7% lower for patients who had each of the individual processes of care performed (P≥.13 for each comparison); mortality was 7.5% for patients who had 0 to 2 processes of care, 7.2% for those with 3 processes of care, and 5.8% for those with all 4 processes of care performed (P=.39). Mortality was not significantly associated with either individual or cumulative process measures in multivariable models.
conclusionNeither the individual processes of care nor the cumulative number performed is associated with short-term mortality for pneumonia.
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