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Editorial
. 2020 Nov;46(11):2064-2066.
doi: 10.1007/s00134-020-06264-3. Epub 2020 Oct 14.

Intensive care accessibility and outcomes in pandemics

Fernando G Zampieri  1 , Markus B Skrifvars  2 , James Anstey  3
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Editorial

Intensive care accessibility and outcomes in pandemics

Fernando G Zampieri et al. Intensive Care Med. 2020 Nov.
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Conflict of interest statement

FGZ has received grants for investigator-initiated clinical trials from Bactiguard, Sweden, and Ionis Pharmaceuticals, USA, in the past 5 years. FGZ has also received grants from the Brazilian Ministry of Health to conduct research, including observational studies, in Brazil through the Programa de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Institucional do Sistema Único de Saúde (PROADI-SUS). FGZ has not received direct compensation, travel support, or holds stock market shares from any pharmaceutical company. Markus B Skrifvars has received travel grants and speaker’s fees from BARD Medical (Ireland) and a research grant from GE Healthcare. JA has no conflicts of interest to declare.

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Fig. 1
Fig. 1
The complex pathway between access to health care and case report fatality in a directed acyclic graph (DAG). Biasing paths are shown in red and causal paths in green. Minimal sufficient adjustment sets for estimating the total effect of access to health care on CFR include two possible scenarios: (1) adjusted for age, comorbidities, cultural factors/end-of-life preferences, gender/race, number of cases, and socioeconomic factors or (2) age, comorbidities, gender/race, population density, and socioeconomic factors. This DAG was made with dagitty R package [15]. Code is provided in the appendix. As all DAGs, items not included are assumed to not be on the causal pathway. For example, socioeconomic factors are not a single value, but a constellation of several other determinants which may be hard to measure. Therefore, the DAG is likely incomplete. CFR case fatality rate. The play symbol (Access to Healthcare box) means that is the exposure of interest. The dash (CFR box) is for mentioning which is the outcome of interest
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