Designing a better "nest": applicable to preventing hospital exposures to risk factors for acute respiratory distress syndrome or just retrospective study design?

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Editorial

Joseph Levitt. Crit Care Med. 2014 Jan.

. 2014 Jan;42(1):197-8.

doi: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182a11eab.

¹ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA.

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The role of potentially preventable hospital exposures in the development of acute respiratory distress syndrome: a population-based study.
Ahmed AH, Litell JM, Malinchoc M, Kashyap R, Schiller HJ, Pannu SR, Singh B, Li G, Gajic O. Ahmed AH, et al. Crit Care Med. 2014 Jan;42(1):31-9. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318298a6db. Crit Care Med. 2014. PMID: 23982022 Free PMC article.

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