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Research in the area of life sciences reported from G.E. Thomsen and colleagues

Published in Hospital Law Weekly, May 29th, 2008

According to recent research published in the journal Critical Care Medicine, "Ambulation of patients with acute respiratory failure may be unnecessarily limited in the acute intensive care setting. We hypothesized that ambulation of patients with acute respiratory failure would increase with transfer to an intensive care unit where activity is a key component of patient care."

"Pre-post cohort study of respiratory failure patients. Adult intensive care units at LDS Hospital. Respiratory failure patients requiring >4 days of mechanical ventilation who were transferred from other LDS Hospital intensive care units to the respiratory intensive care unit. We...

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