A physician issues a medical prescription for a patient. The correct term for this practice is:

Which of the following is NOT a reason for routine review of patient care reports in a quality improvement program?

A) Assess conformity to patient care standards B) Satisfy requirements of the shift supervisor C) Review excellent patient care D) Review poor patient care

A 63-year-old male is hospitalized with fever, cough, shortness of breath, and weight loss. He is coughing up thick, foul-smelling, purulent sputum

Talking with him revealed that he consumes about a quart of alcohol per day and smokes two packs of cigarettes per day. He admits he often passes out after one of his many drinking binges. His chest x-ray shows an extensive right upper lobe infiltrate consistent with pneumonia. His laboratory results indicate: Sputum culture Macroscopic: grossly purulent and foul smelling Microscopic: gram-negative rod pattern (many pale, pleomorphic, bipolar staining gram-negative rods and many pale, thin, fusiform gram-negative rods) Culture: light growth of normal upper respiratory flora Transtracheal aspirate culture Macroscopic: grossly purulent and foul smelling Microscopic: gram-negative rod pattern (many pale, pleomorphic, bipolar staining gram-negative rods and many pale, thin, fusiform gram-negative rods) Culture: results pending What clinical feature(s) suggests this individual has anaerobic pneumonia? A) Organisms grown on the sputum culture do not correlate with direct Gram stain B) Unique morphologies on direct Gram stain C) Foul odor D) All of the above E) B and C