What Is the Prognosis for Using the Pneumonia Severity Index
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Dr. Aberg is Associate Professor of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Aberg is a member of Speaker’s Bureau for Pfizer (makers of fluconazole), and a member of the Infectious Disease Society of America Practice Guidelines Committee, and investigator for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Bacteriology and Mycology Study Group, Grant N01-AI-15440. Reproduction of this article is prohibited without written permission from the American College of Chest Physicians (e-mail: [email protected]). Correspondence to: Judith A. Aberg, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, AIDS Clinical Trials Unit, 4511 Forest Park Ave, Suite 304, St. Louis, MO 63108; e-mail: [email protected]
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