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Article History

Received: 11 December 2021

Accepted: 12 July 2022

First Online: 18 July 2022

Declarations

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: The Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care-IV database was supported by grants from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award numbers R01-EB001659 (2003–2013) and R01-EB017205 (2014–2018) and approved by the Institutional Review Boards of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, MA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA). The eICU Collaborative Research Database was released under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) safe harbor provision. The re-identification risk was certified as meeting safe harbor standards by Privacert (Cambridge, MA) (HIPAA Certification no. 1031219–2). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

: Not applicable.

: Data extracted from the MIMIC-IV and eICU-CRD database do not require individual informed consent because the research data is publicly available, and all patient data are de-identified.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.