Protocol-directed weaning: a process of continuous performance improvement.

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Published in Crit Care on January 28, 2005

Authors

Venkat Ramachandran1, Mary Jo Grap, Curtis N Sessler

Author Affiliations

1: The Department of Medicine, Medical College of Virginia Campus of the Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA. vxr122@hotmail.com

Associated clinical trials:

The Efficacy of Nurse-driven, Protocol Guided Ventilator Weaning in a Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU) | NCT00786617

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