Quality Report Card • Clinical Quality
Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs. These performance indicators apply to pneumonia that started before the patient’s admission to the hospital.
Key
| Better Than U.S. Average | At or Near U.S. Average | Worse Than U.S. Average | No National Average or Too Few Cases |
How To Read This Report:
An explanation of the scores and how the cell coloring relates to them.
Desired Performance
This indicates if a high or low score is best for this metric. In some case the desired performance will be neutral. In this case the desired performance is neither high or low and a color rating is not assigned to the statistic of that metric..
Measures
| Blood Culture Performed Before First Antibiotic Received | High | 98 % | 97 % | 94.7 % |
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| Initial Antibiotic Selection for CAP in Immunocompetent Patients | High | 93 % | 95 % | 91.7 % |
Last Updated 01/29/2010