4 results match your criteria: "University of Utah and Salt Lake City VA Healthcare System[Affiliation]"
Web Exclusive. Annals On Call - The Challenge of Diagnosing Community-Acquired Pneumonia.
Ann Intern Med
October 2024
Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, University of Utah and Salt Lake City VA Healthcare System, Salt Lake City, Utah (B.E.J.).
Diagnostic Discordance, Uncertainty, and Treatment Ambiguity in Community-Acquired Pneumonia : A National Cohort Study of 115 U.S. Veterans Affairs Hospitals.
Ann Intern Med
September 2024
Department of Biomedical Informatics, and Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah and Salt Lake City VA Healthcare System, Salt Lake City, Utah (J.M.B.).
Article Synopsis
- The study analyzed pneumonia diagnoses in patients admitted to U.S. Veterans Affairs medical centers from the emergency department from January 2015 to January 2022, focusing on discrepancies in initial, discharge, and radiographic diagnoses. !* -
- Out of 2,383,899 hospitalizations, about 13.3% were diagnosed with pneumonia, with a significant 57% experiencing discordance between initial and discharge diagnoses. !* -
- Findings indicated that uncertainty in diagnoses was common, especially in high-complexity hospitals, and that patients without an initial pneumonia diagnosis faced a higher 30-day mortality rate compared to those with consistent diagnoses. !*
Advances in community-acquired pneumonia.
Ther Adv Infect Dis
November 2020
University of Western Australia, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, WA 6009, Australia.
Community-acquired pneumonia is one of the commonest and deadliest of the infectious diseases, yet our understanding of it remains relatively poor. The recently published American Thoracic Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America Community-acquired pneumonia guidelines acknowledged that most of what we accept as standard of care is supported only by low quality evidence, highlighting persistent uncertainty and deficiencies in our knowledge. However, progress in diagnostics, translational research, and epidemiology has changed our concept of pneumonia, contributing to a gradual improvement in prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes for our patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHow do (and why should) I use the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program?
Am J Surg
November 2009
University of Utah and Salt Lake City VA Healthcare System, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Background: The National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) is celebrating its 15th year in the Veterans Affairs. The full implementation of this program in the VA was associated with a 27% reduction in mortality and a 45% reduction in morbidity in the VA over this timeframe. The objective of this article is to understand the internal and external motivations for using the NSQIP and how NSQIP data can be used to improve outcomes.
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