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Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia in Nonventilated Patients: The Next Frontier

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2016

Michael Klompas
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
*
Address correspondence to Michael Klompas MD, MPH, Department of Population Medicine, 401 Park Street, Suite 401, Boston, MA 02215 ([email protected]).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 37 , Issue 7 , July 2016 , pp. 825 - 826
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© 2016 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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