Association between hydrocortisone use and outcomes in sepsis patients with hospital-acquired bloodstream infections: An ancillary analysis of the EUROBACT-2 cohort

• Gary Duclos,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Nord, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux Universitaires de Marseille, Marseille, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3305-0077

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• Mohamed Boucekine,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur les services de santé et qualité de vie EA 3279, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France

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• Alexis Tabah,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Intensive Care Unit, Redcliffe Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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• Stéphane Ruckly,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Université de Paris, INSERM, IAME UMR 1137, Paris, France, ICUREsearch, Biometry, Fontaine, France

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• Niccolò Buetti,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Infection Antimicrobials Modeling Evolution U 1137, INSERM, Université Paris-Cité, Paris, France, Infection Control Program and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Jean François Timsit,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Medical and Infectious Diseases Intensive Care Unit, AP-HP, Bichat-Claude Bernard University Hospital, Paris, France, OUTCOME REA network, Drancy, France

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• Marc Leone ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: marc.leone@ap-hm.fr

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Nord, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux Universitaires de Marseille, Marseille, France, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France

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• EUROBACT-2 Study Group ,

  ¶The complete membership of the EUROBACT-2 Study Group is provided in the Supporting information (S1 File).

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• ESICM ,

  ¶+ European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Bruxelles, Belgique

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• ESCMID ESGCIP ,

  ¶‡ European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Study Group for Infections in Critically Ill Patients, Basel, SWITZERLAND

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• the OUTCOMEREA Network

  Affiliation OUTCOME REA network, Drancy, France

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