Zhou, Dawei
Li, Zhimin
Wu, Lei
Shi, Guangzhi
Zhou, Jianxin
Funding for this research was provided by:
Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission-Capital clinical application research (Z181100001718068)
Article History
Received: 6 January 2020
Accepted: 19 May 2020
First Online: 30 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The schema of eICU was established in collaboration with Privacert (Cambridge, MA), who certified the re-identification risk as meeting safe harbor standards (HIPAA Certification no. 1031219–2). All tables in eICU were deidentified to meet the safe harbor provision of the US HIPAA. Due to the HIPAA compliant de-identification in this database, our institutional IRB requirement was waived. Only after the approval of PhysioNet, researchers can access to the database.
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: None of the authors has declared a conflict of interest.