Scheduled change of antibiotic classes: a strategy to decrease the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia.

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Published in Am J Respir Crit Care Med on October 01, 1997

Authors

M H Kollef1, J Vlasnik, L Sharpless, C Pasque, D Murphy, V Fraser

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA.

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