Slash cost of pneumonia, improve care by using risk classification system.
Federal researchers who have extensively studied community-acquired pneumonia have come up with recommendations on when to hospitalize patients so that those not at risk of poor outcomes can be safely and effectively treated on a less costly outpatient basis.
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