Reducing door-to-antibiotic time in community-acquired pneumonia: controlled before-and-after evaluation and cost-effectiveness analysis

Background: Practice guidelines suggest that all patients hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) should receive antibiotics within 4 h of admission. An audit at our hospital during 1999–2000 showed that this target was achieved in less than two thirds of patients with severe CAP. Metho...

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Published in:	Thorax 2007, Vol.62 (1), p.67-74
Main Authors:	Barlow, Gavin, Nathwani, Dilip, Williams, Fiona, Ogston, Simon, Winter, John, Jones, Michael, Slane, Peter, Myers, Elizabeth, Sullivan, Frank, Stevens, Nicola, Duffey, Rebecca, Lowden, Karen, Davey, Peter
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Language:	English
Subjects:	A&E accident and emergency acute medical admissions unit age >65 Aged AMAU Anti-Bacterial Agents - administration & dosage Anti-Bacterial Agents - economics Antibiotics Biological and medical sciences blood pressure British Thoracic Society BTS CAP Community-Acquired Infections - drug therapy Community-Acquired Infections - economics community-acquired pneumonia confusion Cost analysis Cost-Benefit Analysis CURB65 Data collection Female Guideline Adherence Hospitalization Humans Length of Stay Medical Audit Medical sciences Medicare Middle Aged Nursing Patients Pneumology Pneumonia Pneumonia - drug therapy Pneumonia - economics Practice Guidelines as Topic Prospective Studies respiratory Respiratory Infection Severity of Illness Index Teaching hospitals Time Factors Treatment Outcome urea
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