Are specialized ICUs so special?

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Yên-Lan C Nguyen et al. Crit Care. 2009.

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doi: 10.1186/cc8116. Epub 2009 Oct 12.

¹ Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. not@valid.com

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