The authors reply

Yi-Luen Wu¹, Wan-Ting Hsu¹, Frank Qian^{2

3}, Chien-Chang Lee^{1

2

3

4

5

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
² Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.
³ Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁵ Center of Intelligent Healthcare, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁶ Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

Comment

Yi-Luen Wu et al. Crit Care Med. 2021.

. 2021 Jul 1;49(7):e734-e735.

doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000005039.

Yi-Luen Wu¹, Wan-Ting Hsu¹, Frank Qian^{2

3}, Chien-Chang Lee^{1

2

3

4

5

6}

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
² Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.
³ Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁵ Center of Intelligent Healthcare, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁶ Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have disclosed that they do not have any potential conflicts of interest.

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