Pieris, Lalitha
Sigera, Ponsuge Chathurani
De Silva, Ambepitiyawaduge Pubudu
Munasinghe, Sithum
Rashan, Aasiyah
Athapattu, Priyantha Lakmini
Jayasinghe, Kosala Saroj Amarasiri
Samarasinghe, Kerstein
Beane, Abi
Dondorp, Arjen M.
Haniffa, Rashan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7192-0598
Article History
Received: 28 January 2018
Accepted: 8 March 2018
First Online: 21 March 2018
Authors’ information
: LP is the former president of Sri Lanka Nursing Council. PCS is the project coordinator at National Intensive Care Surveillance, Ministry of Health (NICS), Sri Lanka and Network for Improving Critical Care Systems and Training (NICST), Sri Lanka. APDS is a Consultant Community Physician at Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka and the project coordinator at NICS. SM and AR are statisticians at NICS and NICST. PLA at Ministry Of Health, Sri Lanka as Director of Medical Services. KSAJ is a professor of medicine attached to Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. KS is a professor at Department of Health Sciences, Kristianstad University, Kristianstad, Sweden. AD is a Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford, U.K., and a visiting Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand. AD is the Deputy Director and Head of Malaria Research at the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok, Thailand. RH is a Senior Registrar in Anaesthesia UK, project coordinator at NICS and NICST and a global health researcher at Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Bangkok and University of Oxford, U.K.
: Ethical review was obtained from the ethical review board of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (EC-14-013). Verbal consent was obtained [CitationRef removed]. Written consent was not sought from participants as contact details were extracted from the critical care registry and face-to-face contact with patients was not possible. All subsequent data collection was via telephone and written consent would not have been feasible in this setting. Participants were given the right to withdraw from the study at any time.
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