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Management of Pneumonia

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Community-acquired pneumonia is one of the most common diagnoses encountered in medicine. However, pneumonia encompasses a broad range of severity and causative agents necessitating different treatments, often based on patient-specific factors rather than available culture results. Choosing the most appropriate treatments and management strategies depends on a strong understanding of the risk factors associated with various pathogens.

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  1. University of Washington Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Lindee M. Strizich

  2. Harborview Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    John H. Choe

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  1. University of Washington Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Somnath Mookherjee  & Jennifer Wright  & 

  2. VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Lauren A. Beste

  3. Harborview Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Jared W. Klein

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Strizich, L.M., Choe, J.H. (2020). Management of Pneumonia. In: Mookherjee, S., Beste, L.A., Klein, J.W., Wright, J. (eds) Chalk Talks in Internal Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34814-4_30

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