Intensive insulin therapy in intensive care: an example of the struggle to implement evidence-based medicine.

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Department of Intensive Care Medicine and the Laboratory of Experimental Intensive Care and Anesthesiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Published: December 2006

Schultz and colleagues discuss the factors hindering implementation of intensive insulin therapy.

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