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Acute lower respiratory tract infections in children: possible criteria for selection of patients for antibiotic therapy and hospital admission

 

 

Frank ShannI; Kate HartII; David ThomasIII

IPediatrician, Goroka Base Hospital, Papua New Guinea
IIMedical Student, Brisbane University, Australia
IIIMedical Student, Adelaide University, Australia

 

 

REFERENCES

1. Clinical management of acute respiratory infections in children: a WHO Memorandum. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 59: 707-716 (1981).

2. ARMITAGE, P. Statistical Methods in medical research. Oxford, Blackwell, 1971, p. 436.

3. LEVENTHAL, J. M. Clinical predictors of pneumonia as a guide to ordering chest roentgenograms. Clinical pediatrics, 21: 730-734 (1982).

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