Interventions to Prevent Pneumonia Among Older Adults
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Vol. 49 (1) , 85-90
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1532-5415.2001.49015.x
Abstract
Pneumonia is a common cause of death in older people. Antimicrobial drugs do not prevent pneumonia and, because of increasingly resistant organisms, their value in curing infection will become more l...Keywords
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