Introduction: Pneumonia impacts over four million people annually and is the leading cause of infectiousdisease-related hospitalization and mortality in the United States. Appropriate empiric antimicrobialtherapy decreases hospital length of stay and improves mortality. The objective of our study was to testthe hypothesis that the presence of an emergency medicine (EM) clinical pharmacist improves the timingand appropriateness of empiric antimicrobial therapy for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) andhealthcare-associated pneumonia (HCAP).
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Date of Publication
2017
Title
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health