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- Title
Reducing door-to-antibiotic time in community-acquired pneumonia: Controlled before-and-after evaluation and cost-effectiveness analysis.
- Authors
Barlow, Gavin; Nathwani, Dilip; Williams, Fiona; Ogston, Simon; Winter, John; Jones, Michael; Slane, Peter; Myers, Elizabeth; Sullivan, Frank; Stevens, Nicola; Duffey, Rebecca; Lowden, Karen; Davey, Peter
- Abstract
Practice guidelines suggest that all patients hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) should receive antibiotics within 4 h of admission. An audit at our hospital during 1999-2000 showed that this target was achieved in less than two thirds of patients with severe CAP.
- Publication
Thorax, 2007, Vol 62, Issue 1, p67
- ISSN
0040-6376
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1136/thx.2005.056689