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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 3.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Crit Care. 2015 Jul;24(4):e47–e55. doi: 10.4037/ajcc2015717

Table 2.

Salient words elicited from freelists for the phrase intensive care unit by all participants (n = 45)

Salient word Smith S
Sick 0.335
Caring 0.296
Nurses 0.224
Doctors 0.218
Fear 0.208
Suffering 0.146
Medical equipment 0.136
Environment 0.132
Attentive 0.131
Sadness 0.129
Death 0.109
Busy 0.105
Noisy 0.093
Getting better 0.084
Professionals 0.083