"Only few find the way, some don't recognize it when they Do ."-Can we "observe" causality?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 208-209

  Goddard, Shannon L ^a   Fan, Eddy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NURSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84891504594     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182a26703     Document Type: Editorial

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