Quality | Pneumonia Care

Pneumonia Care

Pneumonia is caused by a viral or bacterial infection that fills your lungs with mucus. This lowers the oxygen level in your blood.

The Appropriate Care Measure (ACM) is a patient-centered composite score that captures whether or not a patient received all of the recommended treatments they were elibigle to receive, based on their specific condition.

A quality measure is medical information from patient records converted into a rate or percentage that shows how well hospitals care for their patients. You can use this quality information to help you compare hospitals.

Quality Measures

Percent of Pneumonia Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Percent of Pneumonia Patients Whose Initial Emergency Room Blood Culture Was Performed Prior to the Administration of the First Hospital Dose of Antibiotics

Percent of Pneumonia Patients Given Initial Antibiotic(s) Within 6 Hours After Arrival

Percent of Pneumonia Patients Given Oxygenation Assessment

Percent of Pneumonia Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Percent of Pneumonia Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

Percent of Pneumonia Patients Given the Most Appropriate Initial Antibiotic(s)

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