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Hospitals with the highest intensive care utilization provide lower quality pneumonia care to the elderly

Hospitals with the highest intensive care utilization provide lower quality pneumonia care to the elderly. Critical Care Medicine, May 2015, Vol. 43(6), p.1178-86.

Sjoding, M.W., et al.

http://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/Abstract/2015/06000/Hospitals_With_the_Highest_Intensive_Care.6.aspx

Quality of care for patients admitted with pneumonia varies across hospitals, but causes of this variation are poorly understood. Whether hospitals with high ICU utilization for patients with pneumonia provide better quality care is unknown. We sought to investigate the relationship between a hospital’s ICU admission rate for elderly patients with pneumonia and the quality of care it provided to patients with pneumonia.

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