Critical care rehabilitation trials: The importance of 'usual care'

Critical Care

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Parker, Ann ^a,b   Tehranchi, Kian M ^a,b   Needham, Dale M ^a,b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NOTE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; OUTPATIENT; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CARE; STANDARDIZATION; VENTILATED PATIENT; CONVALESCENCE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; QUALITY OF LIFE;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 84887538909     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc12884     Document Type: Note

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