• Crit Care · Jan 2015

    Clinical study replicability and the pursuit of excellence.

    • Michael J Lanspa, Eliotte L Hirshberg, Russell R Miller, and Alan H Morris.
    • Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Intermountain Medical Center, 5121 S. Cottonwood Street, Murray, UT, 84107, USA. michael.lanspa@imail.org.
    • Crit Care. 2015 Jan 1;19:297.

    AbstractComparisons of processes of care are common in critical care research. Often, these processes are neither explicit nor replicable and this can result in seemingly irreconcilable results. Here, we briefly review the article by Taniguchi and colleagues, who studied liberation from mechanical ventilation by using either a computerized weaning protocol or one driven by respiratory therapists. We discuss the implications of explicit protocols increasing replicability in clinical research.

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