Public reporting of antibiotic timing in patients with pneumonia: Lessons from a flawed performance measure

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Wachter, Robert M ^a   Flanders, Scott A ^b   Fee, Christopher ^c   Pronovost, Peter J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 46449137515     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-149-1-200807010-00007     Document Type: Article

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