Canadian Guidelines for the Initial Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia: An Evidence-Based Update by the Canadian Infectious Diseases Society and the Canadian Thoracic Society
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- 1 August 2000
- journal article
- guideline
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 31 (2) , 383-421
- https://doi.org/10.1086/313959
Abstract
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains a serious illness with a significant impact not only on individual patients but also on society as a whole. GuidelineKeywords
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