When is a Scarlet Letter Really a Red Badge of Courage?: The Paradox of Percentage of Pneumonia Patients Receiving Antibiotics Within 4 Hours in Accordance with JCAHO and CMS Core Measures

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 205-206

  Fee, Christopher ^a   Weber, Ellen J ^a   Sharpe, Bradley A ^a   Quon, Tina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 34447535601     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.03.036     Document Type: Letter

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4. Thompson D. The pneumonia controversy: Hospitals grapple with 4 hour benchmark. Ann Emerg Med. 47 (2006) 259-261
5. Fee C., Weber E., Sharpe B.A., et al. JCAHO/CMS core measures for community-acquired pneumonia. Ann Emerg Med. 47 (2006) 505