Experience with a clinical guideline for the treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia.

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Published in Crit Care Med on June 01, 2001

Authors

E H Ibrahim1, S Ward, G Sherman, R Schaiff, V J Fraser, M H Kollef

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.

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