Affiliations

• ¹ Dept of Medicine, Dept of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
• ² Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ³ Keenan Research Centre and Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ⁴ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK.
• ⁵ Respiratory Care Dept, Massachusetts General Hospital and Dept of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁶ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁷ Dept of Specialistic, Diagnostic and Experimental Medicine, Respiratory and Critical Care, Sant'Orsola Malpighi Hospital, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Stefanava@gmail.com.
• ⁸ Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Dept of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro, Italy.
• ⁹ Dept of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Catholic University of Rome, A. Gemelli University Hospital, Rome, Italy.
• ¹⁰ Dept of Pneumology, Respiratory Institute, Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona and CIBERES, Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹¹ Depts of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
• ¹² Dept of Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesiology (DAR B), Research Unit INSERM U1046, Saint Eloi University Hospital and Montpellier School of Medicine, Montpellier, France.
• ¹³ Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• ¹⁴ Dept of Critical Care Medicine, Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westminster, BC, Canada.
• ¹⁵ Servei de Medicina Intensiva, Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹⁶ Mount Sinai Hospital and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ¹⁷ Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
• ¹⁸ Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, Hempstead, NY, USA.