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• Angarita SAK, Russell TA, Kaldas FM. Pneumonia after liver transplantation. Current opinion in organ transplantation. 2017 Aug 1; 22(4):328-335.
• Batais MA, Khan AR, Bin Abdulhak AA. The Use of Statins and Risk of Community-Acquired Pneumonia. Current Infectious Disease Reports. 2017 Aug 1; 19(8):26.
• Jones BE, Brown KA, Jones MM, Huttner BD, Greene T, Sauer BC, Madaras-Kelly K, Rubin MA, Bidwell Goetz M, Samore MH. Variation in Empiric Coverage Versus Detection of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Hospitalizations for Community-Onset Pneumonia Across 128 US Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. Infection control and hospital epidemiology : the official journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America. 2017 Aug 1; 38(8):937-944.
• Viglianti EM, Prescott HC, Liu V, Escobar GJ, Iwashyna TJ. Individual and health system variation in rehospitalizations the year after pneumonia. Medicine (Baltimore). 2017 Aug 1; 96(31):e7695.
• Lee JS, Giesler DL, Fine MJ. Duration of Antibiotic Therapy for Community-Acquired Pneumonia in the Era of Personalized Medicine. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association. 2016 Dec 20; 316(23):2544-2545.

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• Using Yelp, VA Hospitals Rated Higher than Affiliated Non-VA Hospitals
  Online patient ratings of hospitals (e.g., Yelp) have been shown to correlate strongly with more conventional measures of patient satisfaction, as well as patient outcomes. Therefore, this study compared online hospital ratings from Yelp between VA hospitals and their local affiliated hospitals. Findings showed that VA hospitals had significantly higher Yelp ratings than non-VA-affiliated hospital...
  
  Date: June 28, 2017
• ICU Treatment for Medicare Patients with Pneumonia Associated with Better Outcomes without Increased Costs
  This study sought to determine the association between ICU admission and outcomes, 30-day mortality, and costs among Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized for pneumonia. To account for unmeasured confounding between groups (ICU vs. general ward admission), an instrumental variable (IV) was used – the differential distance to a high-ICU use hospital. Findings showed that ICU admission of those patien...
  
  Date: September 22, 2015
• Comparing High-Dose Influenza Vaccine to Standard-Dose Vaccine among Elderly Veterans
  This study assessed the relative effectiveness of high-dose (HD) influenza vaccination compared to standard-dose (SD) vaccination among Veterans 65 years and older who received either HD or SD vaccine during the 2010-2011 flu season. Findings showed that high-dose influenza vaccine was not more effective than standard-dose vaccine in protecting against hospitalization for influenza or pneumonia in...
  
  Date: March 31, 2015
• Improved Performance on Quality Measures is Accompanied by Increased Racial/Ethnic Equity in Care
  This study examined the quality and equity of hospital care during the six years following initiation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program (2005 to 2010), focusing on 17 process-of-care quality indicators publicly reported by the program for white, black, and Hispanic patients hospitalized for AMI, HF, and pneumonia in non-VA hospitals. Fi...
  
  Date: December 11, 2014
• Majority of Unplanned VA Hospital Readmissions Unrelated to Index Hospitalization
  This study examined unplanned VA hospital readmissions – and compared the leading reasons for unplanned readmission between medical and surgical discharges. Findings showed that after excluding planned readmissions, 12% of all discharges were followed by an unplanned readmission within 30 days. Although nearly 42% of unplanned readmissions were identified as clinically related, the majority of unp...
  
  Date: March 1, 2014

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• May 2010 FORUM
  ...Systems to Improve ICU Outcomes: Reducing Central Line- Associated Bloodstream Infections and Ventilator Pneumonia in VA ICUs Marta L. Render,...
  
  
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  ...and outcomes measures for myocardial infarction (MI), congestive heart failure (CHF), and pneumonia, investigators sought to answer three specific...
  
  
• May 2010 FORUM
  ...positioning for the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia. Many other areas in need of HAI prevention are not well studied. It is notable,...
  
  
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  ...effect on mortality (3 studies), whereas interventions to increase guideline compliance in patients with community-acquired pneumonia were associated...
  
  
• May 2010 FORUM
  ...to Improve ICU Outcomes: Reducing Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections and Ventilator Pneumonia in VA ICUs by Marta L. Render, M.D.,...
  
  

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