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Pneumonia
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

View hospital reports

Hospital quality measures we provide on this site include:

  • Percent of Pneumonia Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination
  • Percent of Patients Whose Initial Emergency Room Blood Culture was Performed Prior to Administration of the First Hospital Dose of Antibiotics
  • Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling
  • Antibiotics Given within 6 Hours
  • Percent of Patients Given the Most Appropriate Initial Antibiotics
  • Percent of Pneumonia Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

About pneumonia

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