Improved survival in critically ill patients: are large RCTs more useful than personalized medicine? Yes

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1775-1777

  Bellomo, Rinaldo ^a,d   Landoni, Giovanni ^b   Young, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF NEW ZEALAND   (New Zealand)

^d AUSTIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CRANIECTOMY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INSULIN TREATMENT; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; SEPSIS;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRECISION MEDICINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SEPSIS;

EID: 84987630596     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-016-4491-4     Document Type: Editorial

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