Diagnosis and Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Children
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Diagnosis and treatment of community-acquired pneumonia.
Patients with community-acquired pneumonia often present with cough, fever, chills, fatigue, dyspnea, rigors, and pleuritic chest pain. When a patient presents with suspected community-acquired pneumonia, the physician should first assess the need for hospitalization using a mortality prediction tool, such as the Pneumonia Severity Index, combined with clinical judgment. Consensus guidelines fr...
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عنوان ژورنال: CHILD`S HEALTH
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2307-1168,2224-0551
DOI: 10.22141/2224-0551.1.69.2016.73731