A multihospital effort to reduce inpatient lengths of stay for pneumonia

Journal of Nursing Care Quality

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 11-23

  Murphy, Mark ^a   Noetscher, Cheryl ^b   Lagoe, Ronald ^c  

^a ST JOSEPH S HOSPITAL HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b CROUSE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Hospital Executive Council   (United States)

Author keywords

Hospital lengths of stay; Hospital utilization; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PATHWAY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COOPERATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY; NURSING RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PNEUMONIA; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; NEW YORK; NURSING RESEARCH; PNEUMONIA; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAMS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 0033147025     PISSN: 10573631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001786-199906000-00004     Document Type: Article

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