Hospital case management : the monthly update on hospital-based care planning and critical paths
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By developing a set of guidelines for admission parameters, antibiotic administration, and treatment, multidisciplinary health care professionals in a Utah health system have significantly reduced the number of deaths and hospital admissions for patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Lengths of stay also were reduced. Before the introduction of these standards, more than 70 different antibiotics had been used statewide.