Guidelines and the medical "art"

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1612-1613

  Tufano, R ^a   Piazza, O ^a   De Robertis, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEART DISEASE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; KNOWLEDGE; LETTER; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BENCHMARKING; CRITICAL CARE; EUROPE; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955921773     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-010-1885-6     Document Type: Letter

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