Pneumonia, Community-Acquired — Goals and Metrics — Clinical Pathway: All Settings

Community Acquired Pneumonia Clinical Pathway — All Settings

Goals and Metrics

  • Goal: To increase the use of Amoxicillin as first-line antibiotic therapy in children with community acquired pneumonia (CAP).
  • Metric: Proportion of children with CAP treated with antibiotics who receive a prescription for Amoxicillin.
  • Setting: Outpatient and Emergency Department
  • Measure type: Process
  • Goal: To reduce the use of diagnostic tests that provide little information to guide management decisions.
  • Metric: Proportion of children with CAP who have the following tests performed: ESR, CRP, RRP, Mycoplasma PCR, Blood culture.
  • Setting: Outpatient, Emergency Department and Inpatient
  • Measure type: Process
  • Goal: To minimize emergency department and hospital length of stay.
  • Metric: ED and hospital length of stay.
  • Setting: Emergency Department and Inpatient
  • Measure type: Outcome
  • Goal: To increase the use of chest ultrasound instead of CT in the evaluation of children with pleural effusions.
  • Metric: Proportion of children evaluated for complicated pneumonia who got a chest ultrasound versus a chest CT.
  • Setting: Emergency Department and Inpatient
  • Measure type: Process
  • Goal: To minimize treatment failures and need for revisit/readmission to primary care provider, emergency department, or hospital.
  • Metric: Proportion of children with CAP who require another visit to primary care provider, ED, or hospital with diagnosis of pneumonia and antibiotic prescription within 14 days.
  • Setting: Outpatient, Emergency Department, and Inpatient
  • Measure type: Balancing