Benefits of tight glycemic control still outweigh the harm of hypoglycemia [22]

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 663-664

  Borggreve, Hella F ^a   Zijlstra, Jan G ^a   Ligtenberg, Jack J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN; LONG ACTING INSULIN;

APACHE; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIABETIC PATIENT; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTERIC FEEDING; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; LETTER; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE DATABASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 38549094596     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318162b935     Document Type: Letter

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