What's new in ICU volume-outcome relationships?

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1635-1637

  Kahn, Jeremy M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG VENTILATION; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; PHYSICIAN; TIDAL VOLUME;

HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

EID: 84881479644     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-013-2992-y     Document Type: Article

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