Less daily oral hygiene is more in the ICU: yes

Brian H Cuthbertson^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Canada. brian.cuthbertson@sunnybrook.ca.
² Inter-Departmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. brian.cuthbertson@sunnybrook.ca.
³ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. brian.cuthbertson@sunnybrook.ca.
⁴ Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. brian.cuthbertson@sunnybrook.ca.
⁵ Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
⁶ Tory Trauma Program, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Canada.

Editorial

Brian H Cuthbertson et al. Intensive Care Med. 2021 Mar.

. 2021 Mar;47(3):328-330.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-020-06261-6. Epub 2020 Oct 10.

Brian H Cuthbertson^{1

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4}, Craig M Dale^{5

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¹ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Canada. brian.cuthbertson@sunnybrook.ca.
² Inter-Departmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. brian.cuthbertson@sunnybrook.ca.
³ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. brian.cuthbertson@sunnybrook.ca.
⁴ Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. brian.cuthbertson@sunnybrook.ca.
⁵ Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
⁶ Tory Trauma Program, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Canada.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflicts of interested related to this article.

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