Tracheostomy timing, enrollment and power in ICU clinical trials

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1743-1745

  Scales, Damon C ^a,b   Kahn, Jeremy M ^c  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FRANCE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL MOBILITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; SEDATION; TRACHEOSTOMY;

HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 52949130607     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-008-1194-5     Document Type: Editorial

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