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Nursing home-acquired pneumonia: a review of risk factors and therapeutic approaches

Ali A. El-Solh The Veterans Affairs Western New York Healthcare System and the Western New York Respiratory Research Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, NY, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Mike S. Niederman Department of Medicine, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY; Department of Medicine, SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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Paul Drinka Department of Internal Medicine/Geriatrics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Pages 2707-2714 | Accepted 05 Oct 2010, Published online: 25 Oct 2010

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