Tight glucose control and hypoglycemia: Should we bother? [1]

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1218-

  Ligtenberg, Jack J M ^a   Stemerdink, Arjanne ^a   Vogelzang, Mathijs ^a   Borggreve, Hella F ^a   Herngreen, Thomas ^a   Zijlstra, Jan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY DISEASE; LETTER; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS;

EID: 34247170030     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000259499.83495.CC     Document Type: Letter

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