Treating critical illness: the importance of first doing no harm.
editorial · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 15971943.
- Also identified by PMC identifier 1160576.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
Singer and Glynne present evidence to suggest that the short- term benefits of many interventions for treating critical illness may camouflage an underlying tendency to cause harm.
Medical subject headings
- Critical Care
- Critical Illness
- Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions