Community-acquired bacterial pneumonia

Work Group Co-chairs
H. Christopher Alexander, III, MD, Co-chair
John Tooker, MD, MBA, Co-chair

Community-acquired bacterial pneumonia measures (PDF, 123KB)

Measure specifications
The Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (Consortium) provides specifications for obtaining the required data elements for its clinical performance measures based on the selected data source.  More detailed specification information (PDF, 14KB) for electronic medical records, paper medical records, and use of administrative data is available.

Specifications for electronic medical records

• Algorithm for measures calculation (PDF, 376KB) [Posted 8/06/08]