Zou, Kang
Huang, Shu
Ren, Wensen
Xu, Huan
Liu, Zhiying
Zhang, Wei
Shi, Lei
Pu, Xinxin
lv, Yinqin
Peng, Yan
Yuan, Fangfang
Tang, Xiaowei
Article History
Received: 4 November 2023
Accepted: 21 November 2024
First Online: 23 November 2024
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The MIMIC database has received ethical approval from the Institutional Review Boards of both Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, MA, USA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA, USA). The link to the MIMIC-IV database (version 2.2) is <u>.</u> For the eICU-CRD, the security schema, which was independently evaluated by a privacy expert (Privacert, Cambridge, MA), was certified as meeting the reidentification risk safe harbor standards (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Certification No. 1031219-2). Hence, this study may qualify for exemption from institutional review board approval owing to its retrospective design, absence of direct patient intervention, and utilization of deidentified data.