The joint commission on accreditation of healthcare organizations and center for medicare and medicaid services community-acquired pneumonia initiative: What went wrong?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 409-411

  Walls, Ron M ^a   Resnick, Joshua ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACCREDITATION; BLOOD CULTURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; JOINT COMMISSION ON ACCREDITATION OF HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); UNITED STATES;

EID: 27644473067     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.07.018     Document Type: Editorial

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