Does this patient have community-acquired pneumonia? Diagnosing pneumonia by history and physical examination.

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Published in JAMA on November 05, 1997

Authors

J P Metlay1, W N Kapoor, M J Fine

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.

Associated clinical trials:

Clinical Characteristics of Acutely Hospitalized Adults With Community-acquired- Pneumonia | NCT04681963

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