If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1146-1147

  Carlon, Graziano C ^a   Combs, Arthur H ^b,c  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Everest Biomed Instruments Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; Dexmedetomidine; Patient satisfaction; Propofol; Sedation

Indexed keywords

DEXMEDETOMIDINE; DIAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; PANCURONIUM; PROPOFOL; THIOPENTAL; VECURONIUM;

ANALGESIA; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DRUG COST; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LONG TERM CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POLIOMYELITIS; POLYPHARMACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEDATION;

CONSCIOUS SEDATION; CRITICAL CARE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROPOFOL; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 18344395582     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000162564.77999.F8     Document Type: Editorial

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