Intensivists: Don't quit your day job...yet!

Critical Care

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Watson, Gregory A ^a   Alarcon, Louis H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DATA BASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVIST; JOB SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78651083442     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc8910     Document Type: Article

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