Supported by ICES, which is funded by an annual grant from the Ontario Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Long-Term Care; a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Critical Care Organization and Outcome (H.W.); Canadian Institutes of Health Research grant 159696; and the H. Barrie Fairley Professor of Critical Care Medicine in the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto (R.F.). The opinions, analyses, and conclusions expressed in this manuscript are those of the authors and do not reflect the funding or data sources. No endorsements by ICES, the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Long-Term Care, or Canadian Institute for Health Information are intended or should be inferred.

Author Contributions: Access to full data and responsibility for the integrity of the data: L.D.B.; accuracy of the data analyses: L.D.B., A.H., and R.P.; study conception and design: L.D.B., H.W., D.C.S., L.R., and D.W.; statistical plan: L.D.B., R.P., A.H., D.C.S., S.E.B., C.M.B., and H.W.; data interpretation: all; draft manuscript: L.D.B.; read and approved the final version: all; guarantor: L.D.B.

Originally Published in Press as DOI: 10.1164/rccm.202403-0492RL on June 12, 2024

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