Chest drain REgular FLushing in ComplIcated parapneumonic EFfusions and empyemas: Study protocol for the RELIEF randomized controlled trial

• Taryn K. Boyle ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Taryn K. Boyle, Jennifer D. Duke

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2176-9348

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• Jennifer D. Duke ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Taryn K. Boyle, Jennifer D. Duke

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

  Affiliation Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Gulmira Yermakhanova,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Rafael Paez,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Greta Bridwell,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Ankush P. Ratwani,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Creighton University, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Kaele M. Leonard,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3940-3204

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• Heidi Chen,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Frank E. Harrell Jr,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Robert J. Lentz,

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

  Affiliation Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Fabien Maldonado,

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

  Affiliation Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Najib M. Rahman,

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

  Affiliation Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit, Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Samira Shojaee

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

  * E-mail: samira.shojaee@vumc.org

  Affiliation Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9228-209X

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