About the Authors

Luciano de Andrade

Affiliations Department of Health Sciences, State University of Maringa, Maringa, Parana, Brazil, Department of Nursing, State University of the West of Parana, Foz do Iguaçu, Parana, Brazil

Catherine Lynch

Affiliation Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Elias Carvalho

Affiliations Nucleus of Data Processing, State University of Maringa, Maringa, Parana, Brazil, Graduate Program in Informatics - PPGIA, Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning Group, Pontificia Universidade Católica - PUC-PR, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil

Clarissa Garcia Rodrigues

Affiliation Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul - Fundação Universitária de Cardiologia, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

João Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculdade Ingá, Maringa, Parana, Brazil

Guttenberg Ferreira Passos

Affiliation Department of Informatics, Brasilia University, Brasilia, Brazil

Ricardo Pietrobon

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Health System, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Oscar Kenji Nihei

Affiliation Department of Nursing, State University of the West of Parana, Foz do Iguaçu, Parana, Brazil

Maria Dalva de Barros Carvalho

kiracarva@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, State University of Maringa, Maringa, Parana, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LA CL EC JRNV GFP OKN MDBC. Performed the experiments: LA EC JRNV OKN. Analyzed the data: LA CL GFP OKN RP MDBC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LA CRG GFP RP MDBC. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: LA CL EC CGR JRNV GFP OKN RP MDBC.