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A 69-year-old man presents with cough producing rusty sputum, pleuritic chest pain and fever for 2 days. He is tachypnoeic at 30 breaths/min and confused. CURB-65 score is 3. Chest radiograph shows right lower lobe consolidation. According to Canadian guidance on community-acquired pneumonia, how should this patient be managed?

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