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Development and Implementation of a Clinical Pathway to Reduce Inappropriate Admissions Among Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia in a Private Health System in Brazil: An Observational Cohort Study and a Promising Tool for Efficiency Improvement

PURPOSE: Patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) at low risk of death by CURB-65 scoring system are usually unnecessarily treated as inpatients generating additional economic and clinical burden. We aimed to implement an evidence-based clinical pathway to reduce hospital admissions of low-r...

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Autores principales: Moreira, Rodrigo C, Mendonca-Filho, Hugo T, Farias, Ayla M, Sznejder, Henry, Lang, Eddy, Wilson, Margaret M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7406371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32801952
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OAEM.S256220