Care bundles: Implementing evidence or common sense?

Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Camporota, Luigi ^a   Brett, Stephen ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE BUNDLE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL ERROR; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BED; NOTE;

BEDS; HUMANS; PATIENT POSITIONING; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 84862729042     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc10232     Document Type: Article

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