Developing and managing a team to participate in trials involving acute respiratory failure: Advice for the inexperienced

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 8-12

  Arabi, Yaseen ^a,c   Ahmed, Qanta A ^b  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Critical care; Intensive care; Leadership; Multicenter studies; Problem solving; Randomized controlled trials; Respiratory insufficiency; Respiratory therapy; Team

Indexed keywords

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEADERSHIP; META ANALYSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SKILL; TEAMWORK;

EID: 33646096221     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: 15317072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ccx.0000198993.99200.72     Document Type: Review

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