TY  - JOUR
T1  - Putting a critical pathway into practice: The devil is in the implementation details: comment on “effect of a 3-step critical pathway to reduce duration of intravenous antibiotic therapy and length of stay in community-acquired pneumonia”
AU  - Sharpe BA
Y1  - 2012/06/25
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.2129
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 928
EP  - 929
VL  - 172
IS  - 12
N2  - 
Imagine if, for the cost of a single sheet of paper and the effort required to place it in the patient's medical chart, you could reduce length of stay by 2 days and save up to $4600 per patient yet have no impact on readmission rate, 30-day mortality, or patient satisfaction. One might think a deal with the devil had been struck, as public and private insurers, health care systems, hospitals, and individual health care providers would likely pay a fair amount for such an intervention.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.2129
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2012.2129
ER  -