Acquiring knowledge in intensive care: merits and pitfalls of randomized controlled trials

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1460-1464

  Gattinoni, Luciano ^a,b   Giomarelli, Pierpaolo ^c  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AIR CONDITIONING; BODY POSTURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; TIDAL VOLUME; METHODOLOGY;

CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84937815364     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-015-3837-7     Document Type: Editorial

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