Discharge Delay in Patients with Community‐Acquired Pneumonia Managed on a Critical Pathway | Zendy

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Discharge Delay in Patients with Community‐Acquired Pneumonia Managed on a Critical Pathway

Author(s) -

Jeremy Moeller,

Martin Ma,

Paul Hernandez,

Thomas J. Marrie,

Claire Touchie,

Ward Patrick

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

canadian journal of infectious diseases and medical microbiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.634

H-Index - 38

eISSN - 1918-1493

pISSN - 1712-9532

DOI - 10.1155/2006/375645

Subject(s) - community acquired pneumonia , pneumonia , critical pathways , medicine , intensive care medicine , engineering , process management

It has previously been reported that a critical pathway for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) significantly reduces bed days per patient managed but results in no difference in average length of stay, suggesting that discharge criteria were not successfully implemented. The present study sought to identify factors in the timing of discharge not taken into account by discharge criteria.

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