May frequency of blood glucose measurement be blurring the association between mean absolute glucose change per hour and mortality?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 224-

  Harmsen, Robin E ^a   Spronk, Peter E ^b   Schultz, Marcus J ^a   Abu Hanna, Ameen ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b GELRE HOSPITALS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

CLINICAL EVALUATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; LETTER; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 78651231889     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181fa0b9f     Document Type: Letter

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