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| Title |
A quality improvement initiative to improve adherence to national guidelines for empiric management of community-acquired pneumonia in emergency departments
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|---|---|
| Published in |
International Journal for Quality in Health Care, December 2010
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| DOI | 10.1093/intqhc/mzq077 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Kylie A. McIntosh, David J. Maxwell, Lisa K. Pulver, Fiona Horn, Marion B. Robertson, Karen I. Kaye, Gregory M. Peterson, William B. Dollman, Angela Wai, Susan E. Tett |
| Abstract |
The objective of this study was to improve the concordance of community-acquired pneumonia management in Australian emergency departments with national guidelines through a quality improvement initiative promoting concordant antibiotic use and use of a pneumonia severity assessment tool, the pneumonia severity index (PSI). |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 98 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 93 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 15 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 13% |
| Other | 12 | 12% |
| Researcher | 8 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 7% |
| Other | 23 | 23% |
| Unknown | 20 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 46 | 47% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 6 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 5% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 4% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 9 | 9% |
| Unknown | 25 | 26% |