Tools that we use: If you can't measure it, you can't manage it

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 312-313

  Nierman, David M ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Comparative study; Critical illness; Humans; Intensive care units; Physiologic monitoring

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

AXILLA; CATHETERIZATION, SWAN-GANZ; CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THERMOGRAPHY; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE; URINARY CATHETERIZATION;

EID: 33845957615     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000251297.60407.DB     Document Type: Editorial

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