RT Journal
A1 Rozzini R, Sabatini T, Trabucchi M
T1 DO findings of high mortality from pneumonia in the elderly make it the old man's friend?—reply
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2004
FD January 26
VO 164
IS 2
SP 225
OP 225
DO 10.1001/archinte.164.2.225-b
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.164.2.225-b
AB 
In our clinical practice, we do not withhold antibiotics because pharmacological treatment can allow patients with even serious clinical conditions to survive (see point 4). But because other causes are more important than pneumonia as determinants of death (see point 3), if we decide to withhold pneumonia treatment, we should also withhold the treatment for all other diseases.