Improving the care of patients with community-acquired pneumonia: A multihospital collaborative QI project

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 425-431

  Metersky, Mark L ^a,b,c   Galusha, Deron H ^d   Meehan, Thomas P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b QUALIDIGM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COOPERATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PNEUMONIA; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CONNECTICUT; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033159689     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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