The centers for medicare and medicaid services (CMS) community-acquired pneumonia core measures lead to unnecessary antibiotic administration by emergency physicians

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 184-187

  Nicks, Bret A ^a   Manthey, David E ^a   Fitch, Michael T ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Community acquired pneumonia; Core measures; Emergency physicians

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPREHENSION; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNET; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES (U.S.); COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DRUG THERAPY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 59949101253     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00320.x     Document Type: Article

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