Pneumonia

Tracking Pneumonia Care

Scripps’ quality efforts related to pneumonia care include:

  • Following evidence-based medicine guidelines in providing care
  • Tracking our performance and constantly working to improve on pneumonia quality measures correlated with better health outcomes
  • Holding regular system-wide quality meetings so hospital leaders can share best practices related to patient care, including pneumonia care

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About pneumonia

Pneumonia is a serious lung infection that causes difficulty with breathing, fever, cough and fatigue.