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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.
2019-09-12
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background: 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....
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- Literature Corpus work
- dc88c1ec-07fc-55b0-9ed4-b2acdbfe6693
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.2.14338/v1
