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What’s new in ICU volume-outcome relationships?

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  1. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Clinical Research, Investigation and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness (CRISMA) Center, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Jeremy M. Kahn

  2. Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA, 15221, USA

    Jeremy M. Kahn

  3. Critical Care Medicine and Health Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh, Scaife Hall, Room 602-B, 3550 Terrace Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15221, USA

    Jeremy M. Kahn

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Kahn, J.M. What’s new in ICU volume-outcome relationships?. Intensive Care Med 39, 1635–1637 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-013-2992-y

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