Practice Guidelines for Evaluating New Fever in Critically Ill Adult Patients
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Naomi P. O’Grady, Philip S. Barie, John G. Bartlett, From the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, and the Johns Hopkins Hospital and St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland; the New Thomas Bleck, Glenda Garvey, Judith Jacobi, York Hospital, and the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New Peter Linden, Dennis G. Maki, Myung Nam, York, New York; the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and William Pasculle, Michael D. Pasquale, Debra L. Tribett, Infectious Disease Physicians, Inc., Annandale, Virginia; the Methodist and Henry Masur Hospital of Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana; and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, and the Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, Pennsylvania
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