Intensive insulin therapy in the medical ICU--not so sweet?

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Kyoko Yamada et al. Crit Care. 2007.

. 2007;11(4):311.

doi: 10.1186/cc5953.

¹ Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

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Intensive insulin therapy in the medical ICU.
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