Intensive care discharge delay is associated with increased hospital length of stay: A multicentre prospective observational study

• Ravindranath Tiruvoipati ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: travindranath@hotmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Frankston Hospital, Frankston, Victoria, Australia, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3800-902X

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• John Botha,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Frankston Hospital, Frankston, Victoria, Australia, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Jason Fletcher,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bendigo Hospital, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1126-5296

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• Himangsu Gangopadhyay,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Box Hill Hospital, Box Hill, Victoria, Australia

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• Mainak Majumdar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Maroondah Hospital, Ringwood East, Victoria, Australia

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• Sanjiv Vij,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dandenong Hospital, Dandenong, Victoria, Australia

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• Eldho Paul,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Clinical Haematology Department, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• David Pilcher,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• the Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Clinical Trials Group

  ¶Memebership of ANZICS clinical trials group committee may be found in the Acknowledgements.

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