Intensive care medicine

Bell, Anthony J; Turner, Andrew J

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb04257.x

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Although evidence-based intensive care medicine is gradually developing, progress in clinical trials has been hampered by the small number of patients, broad range of diagnostic categories, and lack of diagnostic criteria and illness severity measures.

Department of Critical Care Medicine, Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, TAS.

Correspondence: anthony.bell@dchs.tas.gov.au

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