Outpatient care compared with hospitalization for community-acquired pneumonia: a randomized trial in low-risk patients.

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Published in Ann Intern Med on February 01, 2005

Authors

Jordi Carratalà1, Núria Fernández-Sabé, Lucía Ortega, Xavier Castellsagué, Beatriz Rosón, Jordi Dorca, Ana Fernández-Agüera, Ricard Verdaguer, Joaquín Martínez, Frederic Manresa, Francesc Gudiol

Author Affiliations

1: IDIBELL-Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, University of Barcelona, and SCIAS-Hospital de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. jcarratala@wanadoo.es <jcarratala@wanadoo.es>

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