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Filling the intensive care memory gap?

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  1. Department of Medicine, University of Liverpool, Duncan Building, UCD, Daulby Street, L69 3GA, UK

    Richard D. Griffiths

  2. Intensive Care Research Group, Intensive Care Unit, Whiston Hospital, Prescot, L35 5DR, UK

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Griffiths, R., Jones, C. Filling the intensive care memory gap?. Intensive Care Med 27, 344–346 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001340000752

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