About the Authors

Teresa Cardoso

cardoso.tmc@gmail.com

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit – Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos Polivalente – Hospital Geral de Santo António, Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Orquídea Ribeiro

Affiliation Department of Health Information and Decision Sciences, Center for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems (CINTESIS), Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Irene Aragão

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit – Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos Polivalente - Hospital Geral de Santo António, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Altamiro Costa-Pereira

Affiliation Department of Health Information and Decision Sciences, Center for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems (CINTESIS), Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

António Sarmento

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital de São João, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TC IA AC-P AS. Performed the experiments: TC IA AC-P AS. Analyzed the data: TC OR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TC OR. Wrote the paper: TC OR IA AC-P AS.