Internal medicine journal
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Internal medicine journal · Aug 2004
Improving the implementation of community-acquired pneumonia guidelines.
Best practice guidelines define the essential elements of care. They can improve the treatment of patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). Although guidelines advocating these elements are readily avail-able, the care received by patients with CAP remains heterogeneous. In the present report, the use of a -computer-based assistant to decision-making was -successfully developed and tested, improving the application of well-known guidelines.