About the Authors

Marta Vilaça

martamvilaca@gmail.com

Affiliation Medicine Integrated Master (MIM), Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS), Oporto University (UP), Porto, Portugal

Irene Aragão

Contributed equally to this work with: Irene Aragão, Glória Cabral-Campello

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit (UCIP), Oporto Hospital Center, Porto, Portugal

Teresa Cardoso

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit (UCIP), Oporto Hospital Center, Porto, Portugal

Cláudia Dias

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Center for Health Technology and Services Research (CINTESIS) and Information Sciences and Decision on Health Department (CIDES), Faculty of Medicine, Oporto University (UP), Porto, Portugal

Glória Cabral-Campello

Contributed equally to this work with: Irene Aragão, Glória Cabral-Campello

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit (UCIP), Oporto Hospital Center, Porto, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MV IA GC. Performed the experiments: MV. Analyzed the data: MV TC CD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IA TC CD. Wrote the paper: MV IA TC CD GC.