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  BALANCE Investigators, for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group, the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada Clinical Research Network, the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group, and the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Network; Daneman N, Rishu A, Pinto R, Rogers BA, Shehabi Y, Parke R, Cook D, Arabi Y, Muscedere J, Reynolds S, Hall R, Dwivedi DB, McArthur C, McGuinness S, Yahav D, Coburn B, Geagea A, Das P, Shin P, Detsky M, Morris A, Fralick M, Powis JE, Kandel C, Sligl W, Bagshaw SM, Singhal N, Belley-Cote E, Whitlock R, Khwaja K, Morpeth S, Kazemi A, Williams A, MacFadden DR, McIntyre L, Tsang J, Lamontagne F, Carignan A, Marshall J, Friedrich JO, Cirone R, Downing M, Graham C, Davis J, Duan E, Neary J, Evans G, Alraddadi B, Al Johani S, Martin C, Elsayed S, Ball I, Lauzier F, Turgeon A, Stelfox HT, Conly J, McDonald EG, Lee TC, Sullivan R, Grant J, Kagan I, Young P, Lawrence C, O'Callaghan K, Eustace M, Choong K, Aslanian P, Buehner U, Havey T, Binnie A, Prazak J, Reeve B, Litton E, Lother S, Kumar A, Zarychanski R, Hoffman T, Paterson D, Daley P, Commons RJ, Charbonney E, Naud JF, R… See abstract for full author list ➔ BALANCE Investigators, for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group, the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada Clinical Research Network, the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group, and the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Network, et al. N Engl J Med. 2025 Mar 13;392(11):1065-1078. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2404991. Epub 2024 Nov 20. N Engl J Med. 2025. PMID: 39565030 Clinical Trial.