Delivering High Quality Care

AQ Pneumonia: A Quick Guide

pneumonia, advancing quality, Unwarranted Variation

An introduction to the Advancing Quality pneumonia programmes. You'll learn about our work and how and why we collect pneumonia data.

Course content

Lesson Pneumonia and the Advancing Quality programme
- Introduction
- Pneumonia in the UK
- Geographical variation
- What's a pneumonia patient like?
- Where does pneumonia develop ?
- The AQ process
- How we measure care
- Quiz
Lesson Community Acquired Pneumonia
- Introduction
- The AQ CAP measure set
- Oxygen assessment
- Chest X-ray
- Initial antibiotics
- CURB-65
- Appropriate antibiotics
- Key CAP insights
- Quiz
Lesson Hospital Acquired Pneumonia
- Introduction
- The AQ HAP measure set
- NEWS2
- Chest X-ray
- Chest X-ray review
- Sputum sampling
- Initial antibiotics
- Appropriate antibiotics
- Smoking cessation advice
- Duration of antibiotics
- Discharge
- Key HAP insights
- Quiz
Lesson Finishing off
- The AQ team
- More information
- Thank you
- Evaluation