Glucose variability measures and their effect on mortality: A systematic review

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 583-593

  Eslami, Saeid ^a   Taherzadeh, Zhila ^a   Schultz, Marcus J ^a,b   Abu Hanna, Ameen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b HERMES Critical Care Group   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blood glucose; Blood glucose variability; Glycemic control; Mortality; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBASE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDLINE; MORTALITY; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS;

EID: 79953834744     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-010-2129-5     Document Type: Review

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