Description

The pneumonia evaluation MedicalTemplate is suitable for hospitalists, internal medicine physicians, family practice physicians, and other health care providers that evaluate patients with known or suspected pneumonia in ambulatory or hospital settings. This medical documentation template is a fillable Adobe PDF and is designed to improve the efficiency and quality of care in patient with pneumonia.

The Pneumonia Evaluation MedicalTemplate contains prompters for ascertaining different symptoms associated with pneumonia, such as dyspnea, chest pain, pleuritic pain, cough, fever, chills, nightsweats, and hemoptysis. Other prompters help identify patients who are at higher risk of aspiration pneumonia, multi-drug resistant infections, or infections due to less common causes including fungus, legionella, SARS, avian influenza, tuberculosis, and other microbes. Questions to document smoking history, drug abuse (both prescription and street drugs), and alcohol abuse are included to identify patients who are at increased risk of certain types of pneumonia.

Differentiating pneumonia from other medical conditions that produce a similar appearance on a chest x-ray challenging. The Pneumonia Evaluation MedicalTemplate includes prompters to help identify patients who may have other medical conditions such as myocardial infarction, heart failure, vasculitis, inhalation injury, or esophageal rupture that can cause produce a pneumonia like appearance on chest x-ray.