Bending the pandemic curve: Improving decision-making with clinical research

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 442-446

  Webb, Steven A ^a,b   Nichol, Alistair D ^a,c,d  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ST JOHN OF GOD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Influenza; Intensive care unit; Pandemics; Pneumonia; Pragmatic clinical trials

Indexed keywords

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PANDEMIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; THREAT; DISASTER PLANNING; GLOBAL HEALTH; INFLUENZA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROCEDURES;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DISASTER PLANNING; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PANDEMICS;

EID: 85047780843     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000002912     Document Type: Article

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