We investigated the mortality rate of pneumonia (PMR) among children under 5 and its time trend from 1996 to 2013 to determine the priorities for ending preventable deaths from pneumonia in children under 5, and share China's successful experience in reducing PMR with other developing countries....
Following the introduction of standardized physician orders and modification and elimination of inefficient processes of care, the mortality rate for this infection decreased from 10.2% to 6.8%. This initial exposure to the quality improvement process led to the participation of the medical staff in ...
Deaths due to diarrhea and infectious diseases such as pneumonia, diphtheria, and typhoid fever were reduced dramatically. In the post–World War II era, vaccines and other medical interventions such as antibiotics played a role in further declines. Neonatal mortality declined more slowly and later...
While this list of next steps is lengthy and ambitious, the Pneumonia Workgroup has shown what it can accomplish in a short period of time and the lengths it will go to in order to improve the care and clinical outcomes for MultiCare patients. There is little doubt that this approach will...
Diagnoses were pneumonia 49%, meningitis 39% and sepsis 8%. The overall mortality rate was 28%; 40% in sepsis, 38% in meningitis and 24% in pneumonia. Resistance rates were as follows: cotrimoxazol (58% high-level resistance [HLR] and 12% intermediate resistance [IR]), penicillin (21%...
RESULTS: Compared with Whites, the pneumonia and influenza death rate for AI/AN persons in both periods was significantly higher. AI/AN populations in the Alaska, Northern Plains, and Southwest regions had rates more than 2 times higher than those of Whites. The pneumonia and influenza death ...
A recent study found that the US rural mortality penalty is wide and further expanding, which applies to the rural population overall, or all racial/ethnic groups combined, and for non-Hispanic whites, non-Hispanic blacks, and Hispanics individually. ...
Length of stay filtering for pneumonia patients 72 h 4169 Table 2. Inclusion criteria for patients in the community hospital dataset. *Required measurements include Age, Heart Rate, Respiratory Rate, Peripheral Oxygen Saturation (SpO2), Temperature, Systolic Blood Pressure, Diastolic Blood Pressure, Wh...
Patients with very high-risk scores (>150) had a mortality rate of 59.0% at 30 days and 78.8% at 1 year. Patients with higher 1-year risk scores had reduced survival at all times up to 1 year (log-rank, P<.001). For the derivation cohort, the area under the receiver operating ...
Nursing home B had a hospital admission rate for pneumonia (38.8%) that was double that of nursing home A (19.4%). The patient populations were judged to be similar, and the overall mortality outcome for both (weighted average = 24.8%) was essentially identical. Doubling the hospital ...