A Prediction Rule to Identify Low-Risk Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Michael J. Fine, M.D., Thomas E. Auble, Ph.D., Donald M. Yealy, M.D., Barbara H. Hanusa, Ph.D., Lisa A. Weissfeld, Ph.D., Daniel E. Singer, M.D., Christopher M. Coley, M.D., Thomas J. Marrie, M.D., and Wishwa N. Kapoor, M.D., M.P.H.
From the Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine (M.J.F., B.H.H., W.N.K.), the Department of Emergency Medicine (T.E.A., D.M.Y.), and the Department of Biostatistics (L.A.W.), Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh; the General Internal Medicine Unit, Medical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston (D.E.S., C.M.C.); and the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Victoria General Hospital and Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada (T.J.M.).
Address reprint requests to Dr. Fine at Montefiore University Hospital, 8 East Rm. 824, 200 Lothrop St., Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
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