Introducing Critical Appraisal to studies of animal models investigating novel therapies in sepsis.

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Published in Crit Care Med on December 01, 1996

Authors

R D Piper1, D J Cook, R C Bone, W J Sibbald

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.

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