Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Health Care Quality Improvement Program Quality Indicator.
1.92 Percent of recommended hospital care received by Medicare patients with pneumoniaa, United States, 2002 and 2003.
CMS, Medicare Quality Improvement Organization Program.
Opportunities to provide recommended care (collect blood cultures before antibiotics are administered, administer the initial antibiotic dose within 4 hours of hospital arrival and consistent with current recommendations, and give influenza and pneumococcal screening or vaccination) to Medicare patients hospitalized with a
Subset of opportunities to provide recommended care for pneumonia in which recommended care was provided.
Further information about this and other pneumonia measures is available at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/center/quality.asp.