JAMDA
Volume 9, Issue 1 , Pages 65-66 , January 2008

Pneumonia and Mortality in Elderly Patients

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PII: S1525-8610(07)00397-0

doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2007.08.013

JAMDA
Volume 9, Issue 1 , Pages 65-66 , January 2008

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