The routine use of the Pneumonia Severity Index in the emergency department: Effect on process-of-care indicators and results in community acquired pneumonia;Uso rutinario del Pneumonia Severity Index en el servicio de urgencias: efecto sobre los indicadores de proceso y resultado en neumonía adquirida en la comunidad

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 289-297

  Delgado, Miriam ^a   Álvarez, M Mar ^a   Carrascosa, Inés ^a   Rodríguez Velasco, María ^a   Barrios, José Luis ^a   Canut, Andrés ^a  

^a HOSPITAL TXAGORRITXU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Community acquired pneumonia; Conventional admission criteria; Hospital readmission; Inappropriate admission; Intensive care unit admission; Length of hospital stay; Mortality; Pneumonia severity index; Practice guidelines; Quality indicators

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; EMERGENCY WARD; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA SEVERITY INDEX; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879946629     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: 15781852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eimc.2012.04.012     Document Type: Article

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