The long and difficult road to better evaluation of outcomes of prolonged mechanical ventilation: Not yet a highway to heaven

Critical Care

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Combes, Alain ^a,b  

^a ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LONG TERM CARE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EVALUATION; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; TIME;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34248174312     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc5701     Document Type: Article

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