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Editorial
. 2023 Mar;20(3):364-366.
doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202211-945ED.

The Ward or the Intensive Care Unit: Is It All Relative?

Andrew J Admon  1   2   3   4 , Sardar Ansari  5   4
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Editorial

The Ward or the Intensive Care Unit: Is It All Relative?

Andrew J Admon et al. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2023 Mar.
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Figure 1.
Directed acyclic graph describing the authors’ instrumental variable analysis (created using DAGitty version 3.0; dagitty.net). ICU = intensive care unit.
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