Quality of professional society guidelines and consensus conference statements in critical care

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1049-1058

  Sinuff, Tasnim ^a,b   Patel, Rakesh V ^c   Adhikari, Neill K J ^a,b   Meade, Maureen O ^d   Schünemann, Holger J ^e   Cook, Deborah J ^d  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Consensus statements; Critical care; Guidelines; Professional society; Quality; Review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COCHRANE LIBRARY; CONSENSUS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EMBASE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDLINE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 41649110810     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31816a01ec     Document Type: Article

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