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Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 768-769

  Hermans, Greet ^a   Gosselink, Rik ^a   Van Den Berghe, Greet ^a,b  

^a University Hospitals Leuven   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LETTER; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 84859738853     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.23337     Document Type: Letter

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