Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care
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To understand the principles of systematic reviewing and meta-analysis, using recent examples from the medical literature to highlight some of these points. ⋯ Especially in an era of resource restraint, we need to become more skilled at interpreting evidence from clinical research.
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Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care · Sep 2002
ReviewTight control of glycaemia in critically ill patients.
This manuscript attempts to review the effects associated with hyperglycaemia in critically ill patients and the effects of various insulin regimens. The available clinical findings and pertinent experimental data are examined. ⋯ Intensive insulin therapy is probably warranted in most categories of critically ill patients, although some of the underlying mechanisms of its beneficial effects still need to be elucidated.