Empirical Therapy of Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Advancing Evidence or Just More Doubt?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
² Department of Medicine, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia3Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.

Comment

Lionel A Mandell et al. JAMA. 2015.

. 2015 Jul 28;314(4):396-7.

doi: 10.1001/jama.2015.3858.

¹ Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
² Department of Medicine, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia3Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.

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