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Community-Acquired Pneumonia and Outcome: Is There a Sensitivity Link to Distribution Width Value of Red Cell?

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  1. Intensive Care Unit, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Research and Education Hospital, 06500, Besevler, Ankara, Turkey

    Fatma Yıldırım

  2. Department of Critical Care and Anaesthesia, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK

    Alastair J. Glossop

  3. Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Morales Meseguer, Murcia, Spain

    Antonio M. Esquinas

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Yıldırım, F., Glossop, A.J. & Esquinas, A.M. Community-Acquired Pneumonia and Outcome: Is There a Sensitivity Link to Distribution Width Value of Red Cell?. Lung 195, 271–272 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00408-016-9974-0

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