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Article History

Received: 9 January 2023

Accepted: 17 April 2023

First Online: 16 May 2023

Declarations

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: The study was approved by the local ethics committee of the Instituto de Neurologia de Curitiba under protocol number 2.899.188 on September 17, 2018 (ID: CAAE 98099918.2.0000.5227; project title: Epidemiological analysis of patients hospitalized in intensive care units in Curitiba-Paraná). The requirement for informed consent was waived by the same committee, given the noninterventional design of the study and the fact that the data were collected from clinical records and without contact with the participants and the procedures performed in this study were part of routine care. All research procedures were conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional committee on human experimentation and the Declaration of Helsinki of 1975, as revised in 2013.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.