Reducing door‐to‐antibiotic time in community‐acquired pneumonia: controlled before‐and‐after evaluation and cost‐effectiveness analysis

摘要

BackgroundPractice guidelines suggest that all patients hospitalised with community‐acquired pneumonia (CAP) should receive antibiotics within 4 h of admission. An audit at our hospital during 1999–2000 showed that this target was achieved in less than two thirds of patients with severe CAP.