Hospitals with the Highest Intensive Care Utilization Provide Lower Quality Pneumonia Care to the Elderly

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1178-1186

  Sjoding, Michael W ^a   Prescott, Hallie C ^a   Wunsch, Hannah ^b,c   Iwashyna, Theodore J ^a,d,e   Cooke, Colin R ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d VA CENTER FOR CLINICAL MANAGEMENT RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical practice variation; critical care; outcome measures; process measures; quality of healthcare

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITAL UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; AGE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMORBIDITY; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MEDICARE; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT READMISSION; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84937576738     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000925     Document Type: Article

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