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Multicenter Study
. 2016 Mar;71(3):288-90.
doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-206834. Epub 2015 Jul 21.

British Thoracic Society community-acquired pneumonia care bundle: results of a national implementation project

Wei Shen Lim  1 , Chamira Rodrigo  1 , Alice M Turner  2 , Sally Welham  3 , James M Calvert  4 ; British Thoracic Society
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British Thoracic Society community-acquired pneumonia care bundle: results of a national implementation project

Wei Shen Lim et al. Thorax. 2016 Mar.

Abstract

In 2013, 16 U.K. hospital trusts participated in a quality improvement programme involving implementation of a community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) care bundle. High-level data were collected on 14,962 patients admitted with CAP; bundle implementation increased from 1% in October 2012 to 20% by September 2013. Analysis of patient-level data on 2118 adults (median age 75.3 years) found that in the bundle-implementation group, significantly more patients received antibiotics within 4 h of admission (adjusted OR 1.52, 95% CI 1.08 to 2.14, p=0.016) and 30-day inpatient mortality was lower (8.8% vs. 13.6%; adjusted OR 0.59, 95% CI 0.37 to 0.95, p=0.03).

Keywords: Pneumonia.

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