- ►annals.org [PDF] RM Wachter, SA Flanders, C Fee, PJ … - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2008 - Am Coll Physicians The administration of antibiotics within 4 hours to patients with
community-acquired pneumonia has been criticized as a quality standard because
it pressures clinicians to rapidly administer anti- biotics despite ... Cited by 34 - Related articles - All 8 versions
M Bauer, F Brunkhorst, T Welte, H Gerlach, K … - Der Anaesthesist, 2006 - Springer Vom 7.–9. September 2005 veranstal- tetedie Deutsche Sepsis-Gesellschaft (DSG)
ihren zweiten internationalen Sepsiskongress in Weimar; hier dis- kutierten
führende Grundlagenfor- scher und klinische Intensivmediziner den ... Cited by 13 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
JM Pines - Annals of emergency medicine, 2007 - Elsevier In this issue of Annals, Fee et al 1 present data suggesting that the goal of
antibiotics within 4 hours (PN-5b) for greater than or equal to 90% of emergency
department (ED) patients admitted with pneumonia may not be attainable. The ... Cited by 11 - Related articles - All 9 versions
JA Welker, M Huston, JD McCue - Archives of Internal Medicine, 2008 - archinte.highwire.org Background The percentage of patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP)
whose time to first antibiotic dose (TFAD) is less than 4 hours of presentation
to the emergency department (ED) has been made a core quality measure, and ... Cited by 32 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
DE Drake, A Cohen, J Cohn - Quality Management in Healthcare, 2007 - journals.lww.com The development of drug-resistant bacteria from the overuse of antibiotics is a
serious problem, with overutilization threatening to disarm caregivers and their
patients even as together they face increasingly virulent strains of ... Cited by 8 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
SG Baum, A Kaltsas - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2008 - UChicago Press Featured in Philadelphia Inquirer "A shot in the arm for vaccines" April 19,
2009 Vaccines: Pneumococcal Vaccination of Elderly Adults: New Paradigms for
Protection Lisa A. Jackson and Edward N. Janoff Every year, an estimated ... Cited by 8 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
PM Polgreen, YY Chen, JE Cavanaugh, M … - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 2007 - UChicago Press Antimicrobial-resistant pathogens that cause healthcare-associated infections
(HAIs) pose an ongoing and increasing challenge to hospitals, both in the
clinical treatment of patients and in the prevention of the ... Cited by 14 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
JM Pines, JE Hollander, H Lee, WW Everett, L … - Academic Emergency Medicine, 2007 - Elsevier BACKGROUND: The percentage of adult patients admitted with pneumonia who receive
antibiotics within four hours of hospital arrival is publicly reported as a
quality and pay-for-performance measure by the Department of Health and ... Cited by 18 - Related articles - All 4 versions
ML Metersky - Archives of Internal Medicine, 2008 - archinte.highwire.org The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been at the forefront of
these efforts via a multipronged quality improvement program. Among other
interventions, CMS has overseen a program involving auditing and reporting ... Cited by 5 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
JC Pham, GD Kelen, PJ Pronovost - Academic Emergency Medicine, 2007 - Elsevier OBJECTIVES: To measure the quality of emergency department (ED) care for
patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and pneumonia (PNA) and to
estimate the number of preventable deaths in these patients. METHODS: The ... Cited by 6 - Related articles - All 5 versions
