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Antibiotics within 4 hours of arrival at hospital better for pneumonia patients

hospital. The researchers also found that 60.9 percent of all patients received antibiotics within four hours of arriving at a hospital.

"The results of this study suggest that initial administration of antibiotics within four hours of arrival at the hospital is associated with reduced mortality among those patients who have not received antibiotics as outpatients and reduced hospital LOS among all patients," write the authors. "While most Medicare inpatients with pneumonia already receive antibiotics within that time, a substantial proportion do not. Given the growing size of the Medicare population, any additional improvement in administration timing could prevent a substantial number of deaths each year and preserve health care resources."

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