Lack of effect of a pneumonia clinical pathway on hospital-based pneumococcal vaccination rates

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 141-143

  Metersky, Mark L ^a,b,f   Fine, Jonathan M ^c   Tu, George S ^d   Mathur, Deepak ^a   Weingarten, Scott ^d   Petrillo, Marcia K ^a   Meehan, Thomas P ^a,e  

^a QUALIDIGM   (United States)

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

^c NORWALK HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS POLYSACCHARIDE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CONNECTICUT; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION;

EID: 0035254177     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(00)00669-0     Document Type: Article

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