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Door-to-antibiotics time for pneumonia

Unintended consequences from a poor quality measure: "[It's] a flawed quality measure led to a lot of unnecessary antibiotic treatment (along with its accompanying risk of side effects, promotion of drug resistance, and C. diff). That’s a bad thing."







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  1. Blogger carl  

    Now that there is talk about making C dif a never event it is going to be interesting to see what happens.
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