Summary for Clinicians: Clinical Practice Guideline for Management of Malignant Pleural Effusions

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for Clinicians: Clinical Practice Guideline for Management of Malignant Pleural Effusions Chakravarthy B. Reddy, Malcolm M. DeCamp, Rebecca L. Diekemper, Michael K. Gould, Travis Henry, Narayan P. Iyer, Y. C. Gary Lee, Sandra Z. Lewis, Nick A. Maskell, Najib M. Rahman, Daniel H. Sterman, Momen M. Wahidi, Alex A. Balekian, and David J. Feller-Kopman Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah; Division of Thoracic Surgery, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois; Doctor Evidence LLC, Santa Monica, California; Department of Research and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, California; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; Department of Medicine and Lung Institute of Western Australia, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia; Academic Respiratory Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; Oxford Respiratory Trials Unity, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, NYU Langone Medicine Center, New York, New York; Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University School ofMedicine, Durham,North Carolina; Division of Pulmonary andCritical CareMedicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; and Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland