Severity scales in community-acquired pneumonia: what matters apart from death?

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Kirsty Challen. Thorax. 2011 Dec.

. 2011 Dec;66(12):1092-4; author reply 1094-5.

doi: 10.1136/thx.2010.154948. Epub 2010 Dec 21.

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