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Finding the balance between overtreatment versus undertreatment for hospital-acquired pneumonia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2021

Michael Klompas Open the ORCID record for Michael Klompas [Opens in a new window]  and
Dian L. Baker Open the ORCID record for Dian L. Baker [Opens in a new window]
Michael Klompas*
Affiliation:
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Dian L. Baker
Affiliation:
School of Nursing, California State University, Sacramento, California
*
Author for correspondence: Michael Klompas, E-mail: mklompas@bwh.harvard.edu
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , March 2022 , pp. 376 - 378
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