Previous cultures are not clinically useful for guiding empiric antibiotics in suspected ventilator-associated pneumonia: Secondary analysis from a randomized trial
- 31 March 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Journal of Critical Care
- Vol. 23 (1), 58-63
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrc.2008.01.009
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