Article History
Received: 15 March 2018
Accepted: 24 October 2018
First Online: 7 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: According to Swedish law, ethical approval is not required for QI–projects and monitoring of normal clinical practice. However, this project was performed according to ethical standard so that all clinical data were anonymously collected and there were no possibilities to identify individual patients in the dataset. All treatments were performed in compliance with standard evidence-based clinical practice and at the discretion of the treating physician.At admittance, all patients and their relatives were informed, verbally and in writing, that during the ICU stay, clinical data were continuously recorded and reported to regional and national ICU databases. This is a standard, nationally agreed procedure for performance and quality monitoring and part of normal ICU routines. The information also pointed out that given consent to this data retrieval was voluntary and could be withdrawn at any time. In that case, all data would be erased.
: Not applicable as not any details, images, or videos relating to an individual person is presented.
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