Length of stay and mortality in neurocritically ill patients: impact of a specialized neurocritical care team.

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Published in Crit Care Med on November 01, 2004

Authors

Jose I Suarez1, Osama O Zaidat, Muhammad F Suri, Eliahu S Feen, Gwendolyn Lynch, Janice Hickman, Alexandros Georgiadis, Warren R Selman

Author Affiliations

1: Neurosciences Critical Care, the Department of Neurology, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.

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