The International Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) Collaboration Cohort (ICCC) study: rationale, design and description of study cohorts and patients.

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Published in BMJ Open on May 21, 2012

Authors

Phyo Kyaw Myint1, Chun Shing Kwok, Sumit R Majumdar, Dean T Eurich, Allan B Clark, Pedro P España, Shin Yan Man, David T Huang, Donald M Yealy, Derek C Angus, Alberto Capelastegui, Timothy H Rainer, Thomas J Marrie, Michael J Fine, Yoon K Loke

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, UK.

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