Is the Current Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock Really Evidence Based?
Open Access
- 22 August 2006
- journal article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 3 (9) , e346
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030346
Abstract
Vincent discusses the reasons why evidence-based medicine may be particularly difficult to apply in the management of patients with severe sepsis.Keywords
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