The Surviving Sepsis Campaign: Robust evaluation and high-quality primary research is still needed

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 683-684

  Finfer, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Compliance; Guidelines; Methodology; Morbidity; Mortality; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL;

EID: 74949126078     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181cc5302     Document Type: Editorial

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