Designing safe intensive care units of the future

Intensive and Critical Care Medicine: WFSICCM World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 525-541

  Barach, Paul ^a   Forbes, Mary Potter ^b   Forbes, Ian ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 79952947834     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-88-470-1436-7_40     Document Type: Chapter

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