Psychiatric problems in intensive care.
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Psychological problems in intensive care.
Intensive care units are now well established in modem hospital practice and there can be few clinicians in any specialty who have not had some of their patients treated in such units. Intensive care units form a collection of the most ill in hospital. In our own unit the average mortality based on the last 1700 patients admitted was 13-5%, although there was a wide variation depending on the t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Anaesthesia
سال: 1976
ISSN: 0003-2409,1365-2044
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1976.tb12331.x