Improving outcomes from community-acquired pneumonia
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Improving outcomes from community-acquired pneumonia.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW We are entering into a new era of healthcare wherein patient outcomes are increasingly being publicly reported, not just by institution, but by individual clinicians. This review focuses on the issue of quality of care of patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), in particular the choice of outcome, quality of data needed and recommendations of the current bundle of ca...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1070-5287
DOI: 10.1097/mcp.0000000000000155