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Improving outcomes from community-acquired pneumonia.

Curr Opin Pulm Med

May 2015

aUniversity of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia bNorthwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA cRoyal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

Purpose Of Review: We are entering into a new era of healthcare wherein patient outcomes are increasingly being publicly reported, not just by institution, but by individual clinicians. This review focuses on the issue of quality of care of patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), in particular the choice of outcome, quality of data needed and recommendations of the current bundle of care suggested by the available literature as delivering the best chance of favourable outcomes for patients.

Recent Findings: There is increasing evidence that pneumonia outcomes have improved over the past decade, particularly mortality.

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