Rezar, Richard
Jung, Christian
Mamandipoor, Behrooz
Seelmaier, Clemens
Felder, Thomas K.
Lichtenauer, Michael
Wernly, Sarah
Zwaag, Samanta M.
De Lange, Dylan W.
Wernly, Bernhard
Osmani, Venet
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf. Anstalt öffentlichen Rechts
Article History
Received: 20 September 2021
Accepted: 2 March 2022
First Online: 12 March 2022
Declarations
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: In accordance with national legislation and institutional requirements, written informed consent was not required for participation as this is an analysis of a publicly available, deidentified database with pre-existing institutional review board (IRB). An Institutional Review Board (IRB; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA) approval was obtained for the creation of the database. The present study is an analysis of the publicly available anonymized database; therefore no further ethics approval was deemed necessary. The eICU database includes admissions of 335 ICUs across the USA in 2014 and 2015 and is released under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) safe harbor provision
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.