Coiffard, Benjamin http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8896-5346
Prud’Homme, Eloi
Hraiech, Sami
Cassir, Nadim
Le Pavec, Jérôme
Kessler, Romain
Meloni, Federica
Leone, Marc
Thomas, Pascal Alexandre
Reynaud-Gaubert, Martine
Papazian, Laurent
Article History
Received: 22 December 2019
Accepted: 15 April 2020
First Online: 29 April 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Respondents of the survey gave their consent by completing the survey, choosing which questions to answer. The respondents were informed that the results of the study would be analyzed at the group level; that no individual center data would be able to be identified; and that data would be used for research purposes only. All the clinical cases exposed in the survey were invented by the authors and do not correspond to real cases. No ethical approval was sought for this study which doesn’t involve humans data. The study complies with French law (Loi Jardé. LOI n° 2012–300 du 5 mars 2012 and Délibération n° 2018–155 du 3 mai 2018) which requires ethical review only for research involving humans [CitationRef removed, CitationRef removed] and the World Medical Association and Declaration of Helsinki’s principles for medical research involving human subjects, whose purpose is to protect individuals and ensure respect for human dignity [CitationRef removed].
: All participants provided informed consent for anonymized analysis of their answers and provided their names and the name of their center to be published as collaborators.
: Pr. Marc Leone discloses financial support from MSD (Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA) and Pfizer (Paris, France). Pr. Laurent Papazian reports non-financial support from Dräger SAS France, non-financial support from Maquet SAS France, outside the submitted work. Other authors have no conflict to disclose. Pr. Federica Meloni is a member of the Editorial Board of the BMC Pulmonary Medicine journal as an Associate Editor of the section “Infectious, Rare and Idiopathic Pulmonary Diseases”.