Improving patient safety in critical care: big challenge, exciting opportunity/L'amelioration de la securite des patients a l'unite des soins intensifs : un grand defi, une occasion stimulante.

Peter Dodek

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Improving patient safety in critical care: big challenge, exciting opportunity/L'amelioration de la securite des patients a l'unite des soins intensifs : un grand defi, une occasion stimulante.

June 22, 2009

Dodek P. Can J Anaesth. 2005;52(5):459-62.

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The author briefly presents several methods for improving safety in the context of Baxter’s 2005 study on ventilator-associated pneumonia.

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