Aggregate and hospital-level impact of national guidelines on diagnostic resource utilization for children with pneumonia at children's hospitals

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• 作者：Kavita Parikh ; Matt Hall ; Anne J. Blaschke ; Carlos G. Grijalva ; Thomas V. Brogan ; Mark I. Neuman ; Derek J. Williams ; Jeffrey S. Gerber ; Adam L. Hersh and Samir S. Shah
• 刊名：Journal of Hospital Medicine
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：May 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：11
• 期：5
• 页码：317-323
• 全文大小：408K
• ISSN：1553-5606

文摘

National guidelines for the management of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in children were published in 2011. These guidelines discourage most diagnostic testing for outpatients, as well as repeat testing for hospitalized patients who are improving. We sought to evaluate the temporal trends in diagnostic testing associated with guideline implementation among children with CAP.