About the Authors

Irene Cortés-Puch

irene.cortes.es@gmail.com (ICP); CNatanson@cc.nih.gov (CN)

Affiliation Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bldg. 10, Room 2C145, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States of America

Robert A. Wesley

Affiliation Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bldg. 10, Room 2C145, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States of America

Michael A. Carome

Affiliation Health Research Group, Public Citizen, 1600 20th Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20009, United States of America

Robert L. Danner

Affiliation Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bldg. 10, Room 2C145, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States of America

Sidney M. Wolfe

Affiliation Health Research Group, Public Citizen, 1600 20th Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20009, United States of America

Charles Natanson

irene.cortes.es@gmail.com (ICP); CNatanson@cc.nih.gov (CN)

Affiliation Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bldg. 10, Room 2C145, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors do not have any conflicts of interest to declare.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CN. Performed the experiments: ICP RAW. Analyzed the data: ICP RAW MAC RLD SMW CN. Wrote the paper: ICP MAC RLD CN SMW.