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. 2025 Apr 28:37:e20250339.
doi: 10.62675/2965-2774.20250339. eCollection 2025.

Common pitfalls in critical care research

Bruno Adler Maccagnan Pinheiro Besen  1   2   3 , Antônio Paulo Nassar Jr  1   3 , Juliana Carvalho Ferreira  3   4 , Otavio Ranzani  4   5
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Common pitfalls in critical care research

Bruno Adler Maccagnan Pinheiro Besen et al. Crit Care Sci. .
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Figure 1
Figure 1. Examples of a contrast of a good (and not so good) hypothetical observational study about the effects of awake prone positioning in hospitalized COVID-19 patients with respiratory failure.
DAG - directed acyclic graph; NHST - null hypothesis significance testing.
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