Initial treatment of community-acquired pneumonia

INITIAL TREATMENT OF COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA: THE EFFECT OF INCOME ON SITE OF CARE AND CHOICE OF TREATMENT. [...] Institute of Health Economics Working Paper 04-10 iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the Institute of Health Economics and the University of Alberta. [...] In addition, due to the limited role of fluoroquinolones in the treatment of CAP15 and concerns regarding inappropriate use of this class of agents30, we sought to further examine the individual use of restricted antibiotics. [...] The reliability and validity of the Manitoba Health databases have been previously reported.31-33 6. Institute of Health Economics Working Paper 04-10 Medical claims contain records of physician services provided in a variety of settings (e.g., office, hospital or personal care home) and include information related to the date, type and location of the service and to a single diagnosis reflecting [...] All patient variables were again entered into the model, with the addition of ‘study year’ because of considerable changes in the consumption of a number of antibiotic classes over the study period.