Chinese Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Hospital-acquired Pneumonia and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia in Adults (2018 Edition)

Overview

Journal J Thorac Dis

Publisher AME Publishing Company

Specialty Pulmonary Medicine

Date 2019 Aug 3

PMID 31372297

Citations 43

Authors

Yi Shi

Yi Huang

Tian-Tuo Zhang

Bin Cao

Hui Wang

Chao Zhuo

Feng Ye

Xin Su

Hong Fan

Jin-Fu Xu

Jing Zhang

Guo-Xiang Lai

Dan-Yang She

Xiang-Yan Zhang

Bei He

Li-Xian He

You-Ning Liu

Jie-Ming Qu

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