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One performance gap VHA identified through this benchmarking was the low vaccination rate of elderly and chronically ill VHA patients who are at high risk for contracting one type of potentially fatal pneumonia.
P aeruginosa is the most common pathogen causing bacterial pneumonia in our patients [ 25 ] . However, compared with pneumococcal pneumonia, Pseudomonas pneumonia is less likely to be associated with bacteremia [ 25 ] . The annual incidence rate of P aeruginosa infection in patients with HIV infection is estimated to be 2.51 cases per 100 admissions [ 22 ] . P aeruginosa has been reported to be the causative agent of 7.6% to 18% of bacteremias in hospitalized patients with HIV infection [ 14 16 20 ] . In the present study, P aeruginosa was responsible for 6% of the bacteremias.
(Two of the children died of pneumonia soon after these inexplicable events; the third, Lucia, now in her 90s, has been a cloistered Carmelite nun in Coimbra since 1929 and makes very few public appearances.)
Indeed, the peak of pneumococcal meningitis incidence in the 3–6-mo age group (see Figure 2) suggests that the mechanism of protection against meningitis may differ from those against pneumonia and bacteremia.
The dependent variables for the analyses of quality of clinical care were excess death rates from all causes and from 4 specific medical conditions that have relatively high death rates: acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, pneumonia and stroke.