Supporting small steps toward big innovations: the importance of rigorous pilot studies in critical care

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Outcomes After Critical Illness and Surgery (OACIS) Group, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Electronic address: turnbull@jhmi.edu.
• ² Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Outcomes After Critical Illness and Surgery (OACIS) Group, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
• ³ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Outcomes After Critical Illness and Surgery (OACIS) Group, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.