Cardiac surgical ICU care: eliminating "preventable" complications.

Jay G. Shake; Peter Pronovost; Glenn J R Whitman

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Cardiac surgical ICU care: eliminating "preventable" complications.

September 11, 2013

Shake JG, Pronovost P, Whitman GJR. J Card Surg. 2013;28(4):406-13.

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This review spotlights checklists and goal sheets as strategies to reduce preventable harm associated with cardiac surgery patients.

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