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01-12-2007 | Correspondence

Chest physiotherapy and outcomes in ICU

Authors: Mark G. A. Palazzo, Maie Templeton

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 12/2007

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Sir: Thank you for the opportunity to reply to correspondents Beraldo and Timenetsky, who raise concerns regarding our use of statistics and suggest that we should have used ventilator-free days, as suggested by Schoenfeld and Bernard, as an alternative to the standard Kaplan–Meier analyses [1]. …

Schoenfeld DA, Bernard GR (2002) Statistical evaluation of ventilator-free days as an efficacy measure in clinical trials of treatments for acute respiratory distress syndrome. Crit Care Med 30:1772–1777PubMedCrossRef

Title: Chest physiotherapy and outcomes in ICU
Authors: Mark G. A. Palazzo
Maie Templeton
Publication date: 01-12-2007
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 12/2007
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-007-0894-6

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