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To the Editor: We commend Drs. Bartlett and Mundy on their review of community-acquired pneumonia (Dec. 14 issue).¹ Having served as a chair or member of the Canadian and American Thoracic Society (ATS) consensus committees that developed guidelines for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia, we would like to address the differences between the approaches to initial empirical antibiotic therapy recommended by the British Thoracic Society (BTS) and by the Canadian and ATS consensus committees.^2,3

The BTS statement dealt only with hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia, whereas the Canadian and ATS statements dealt with both inpatients and outpatients. The BTS statement . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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