About the Authors

Tamara Pscheidl

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation University Hospital Würzburg, Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, Emergency and Pain Medicine, Würzburg, Germany

Carina Benstoem

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Intermediate Care, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Kelly Ansems

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Intermediate Care, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Lena Saal-Bauernschubert

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University Hospital Würzburg, Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, Emergency and Pain Medicine, Würzburg, Germany

Anne Ritter

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

Ana-Mihaela Zorger

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Karolina Dahms

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Intermediate Care, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Sandra Dohmen

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Intermediate Care, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Eva Steinfeld

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Intermediate Care, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Julia Dormann

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Intermediate Care, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Claire Iannizzi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Nicole Skoetz

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Heidrun Janka

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of General Practice, Medical Faculty of the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Maria-Inti Metzendorf

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of General Practice, Medical Faculty of the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Carla Nau

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Lübeck, Germany

Miriam Stegemann

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

Patrick Meybohm

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University Hospital Würzburg, Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, Emergency and Pain Medicine, Würzburg, Germany

Falk von Dincklage

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Universitätsmedizin Greifswald, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, Emergency and Pain Medicine, Greifswald, Germany

Sven Laudi

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany

Falk Fichtner

Contributed equally to this work with: Falk Fichtner

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany

Stephanie Weibel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

weibel_s@ukw.de

Affiliation University Hospital Würzburg, Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, Emergency and Pain Medicine, Würzburg, Germany

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: CB declares no financial competing interests but reports involvement in one of the included studies (TELnet@NRW). SD declares no financial competing interests but reports involvement in one of the included studies (TELnet@NRW) and participated in carrying out the intervention. SL received institutional funding from Sächsische Aufbaubank (SAB) to set up a virtual tele intensive care network but declares no academic competing interests. All other authors declare no competing interests. Authors with academic competing interests were not involved in the assessment of the included studies.