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Cognitive recovery after critical illness: comparing English and Spanish-speaking survivors
Ana Lucia Fuentes1, Charlotte C Ellberg2, Faizah Shareef2
1Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA. afuentes@health.ucsd.edu.
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