Impact of Procalcitonin Guidance on Management of Adults Hospitalized with COPD Exacerbations

Derek Bremmer; Briana DiSilvio; Crystal Hammer; Moeezullah Beg; Swati Vishwanathan; Daniel Speredelozzi; Matthew Moffa; Kurt Hu; Rasha Abdulmassih; Jina Makadia; Rikinder Sandhu; Mouhib Naddour; Noreen Chan-Tompkins; Tamara Trienski; Courtney Watson; Thomas Walsh

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Impact of Procalcitonin Guidance on Management of Adults Hospitalized with COPD Exacerbations

Derek Bremmer, Briana DiSilvio, Crystal Hammer, Moeezullah Beg, Swati Vishwanathan, Daniel Speredelozzi, Matthew Moffa, Kurt Hu, Rasha Abdulmassih, Jina Makadia, Rikinder Sandhu, Mouhib Naddour, Noreen Chan-Tompkins, Tamara Trienski, Courtney Watson, Thomas Walsh

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Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	S574-S574
Journal	Open Forum Infectious Diseases
Volume	4
Issue number	suppl_1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.1501
State	Published - Oct 1 2017
Externally published	Yes

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Bremmer, D., DiSilvio, B., Hammer, C., Beg, M., Vishwanathan, S., Speredelozzi, D., Moffa, M., Hu, K., Abdulmassih, R., Makadia, J., Sandhu, R., Naddour, M., Chan-Tompkins, N., Trienski, T., Watson, C., & Walsh, T. (2017). Impact of Procalcitonin Guidance on Management of Adults Hospitalized with COPD Exacerbations. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 4(suppl_1), S574-S574. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.1501

Bremmer, D, DiSilvio, B, Hammer, C, Beg, M, Vishwanathan, S, Speredelozzi, D, Moffa, M, Hu, K, Abdulmassih, R, Makadia, J, Sandhu, R, Naddour, M, Chan-Tompkins, N, Trienski, T, Watson, C & Walsh, T 2017, 'Impact of Procalcitonin Guidance on Management of Adults Hospitalized with COPD Exacerbations', Open Forum Infectious Diseases, vol. 4, no. suppl_1, pp. S574-S574. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.1501

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