Empirical therapy for nonhospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia
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Empirical therapy for nonhospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Study Group of General Practitioners.
A prospective survey involving a group of 95 general practitioners (GPs) in France was conducted to describe antibiotic therapy prescribed for out-patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). A total of 173 cases of CAP, defined by the association of fever and pulmonary focal crackles and/or radiological changes consistent with a pulmonary infection, were reported between February 1993 and...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0000-0000,0903-1936
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.98.11010073