Open Access<p>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</p>
Author(s) -
Rodrigo Moreira,
Hugo Tannus Furtado de Mendonça-Filho,
Ayla Maria Mesquita de Farias,
Henry Sznejder,
Eddy Lang,
Mark Wilson
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
open access emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.408
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 1179-1500
DOI - 10.2147/oaem.s256220
Subject(s) - medicine , community acquired pneumonia , pneumonia , logistic regression , observational study , population , clinical pathway , emergency medicine , cohort , cohort study , pleural effusion , environmental health , nursing
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-risk CAP and investigate factors related to mortality and readmissions within 30 days.