Talk:Lower respiratory tract infection

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Refs[edit]

I tried to clean up the formatting of the references today. I haven't dealt with all of them and I'm not actually sure how what format to use for citing some of them. I hope that someone else will be able to make further progress on this. I deleted:

[5] Ball P. Epidemiology and treatment of chronic bronchitis and its exacerbations. Chest. 1995 August 1, 1995;108(2):43S-52

because no inline refs actually refer to it. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:13, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tone[edit]

This reads very much like someone uploaded a paper that they wrote for school. Are there any copyeditors out there? WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:13, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Abbreviation[edit]

In accordance with the three components of this compound (Lower, respiratory tract, and infection), it is sometimes abbreviated as LRI (see e.g. here. There are also uses where the term tract is omitted (Lower Respiratory Infect), e.g. a 2018 Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation study. --Kolya (talk) 08:50, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]