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This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation’s National Research Programme “Smarter Health Care” (NRP 74) and the Universität Basel’s Forschungsfonds for excellent young researchers. LAC works at the Laboratory for Computational Physiology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which developed and maintains the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC) database. The authors have no other competing interests to declare.
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McLennan, S., Shaw, D. & Celi, L.A. The challenge of local consent requirements for global critical care databases. Intensive Care Med 45, 246–248 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-018-5257-y
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