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Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 6/2020

01-06-2020 | Septicemia | Less is more in Intensive Care

Checklists and protocols in the ICU: less variability in care or more unnecessary interventions?

Authors: Anthony Delaney, Naomi Hammond, Edward Litton

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 6/2020

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“There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible and wrong”.
H. L. Mencken. “The Divine Afflatus”, New York Evening Mail, November 1917.
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Metadata
Title
Checklists and protocols in the ICU: less variability in care or more unnecessary interventions?
Authors
Anthony Delaney
Naomi Hammond
Edward Litton
Publication date
01-06-2020
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 6/2020
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-020-06034-1

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