Benefit of Appropriate Empirical Antibiotic Treatment: Thirty-day Mortality and Duration of Hospital Stay
- 1 November 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in American Journal Of Medicine
- Vol. 119 (11), 970-976
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2006.03.034
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