More Than Half Of Patients Hospitalized For Community-Acquired Pneumonia Have Discordant Diagnoses From Initial Presentation To Discharge, Study Finds

Infectious Disease Advisor (9/4, Chan) reports, “Over half of all patients hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia had discordant diagnoses from initial presentation to discharge, and treatments for other diagnoses, as well as expressions of uncertainty were common, according to study results.” Researchers found “complete positive concordance and diagnostic discordance between initial” emergency department “presentation and discharge occurred in 38.1% and 56.7% of hospitalizations, respectively.” The findings were published in Annals of Internal Medicine.