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Aggregate and hospital-level impact of national guidelines on diagnostic resource utilization for children with pneumonia at children's hospitals.
Researchers sought to evaluate the temporal trends in diagnostic testing associated with guideline implementation among children with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). They concluded that publication of national pneumonia guidelines in 2011 was associated with modest changes in diagnostic testing for children with CAP. However, the changes varied across hospitals, and the financial impact was modest.
AHRQ-funded; HS022342.
Citation: Parikh K, Hall M, Blaschke AJ .
Aggregate and hospital-level impact of national guidelines on diagnostic resource utilization for children with pneumonia at children's hospitals.
J Hosp Med 2016 May;11(5):317-23. doi: 10.1002/jhm.2534.
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Keywords: Children/Adolescents, Community-Acquired Infections, Guidelines, Pneumonia