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Mortality rate is higher in Polish intensive care units than in other European countries

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Acknowledgements

The study was funded by the Swedish Society for Medical Research (MH) and the Uppsala University Hospital (WW, MH). We would like to thank Daniel Rutkowski, deputy director of the Department of Healthcare Service, National Health Found (NHF), for ICU outcomes data from NHF. We would also like to thank Editage (http://www.editage.com) for English language editing and publication support.

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  1. Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Department of Surgical Sciences, Akademiska Hospital, Uppsala University, 751 85, Uppsala, Sweden

    Wojciech Weigl & Michael Hultström

  2. Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Satakunta District Hospital, 28500, Pori, Finland

    Jan Adamski

  3. National Institute of Public Health-National Institute of Hygiene, Centre for Monitoring and Analyses of Population Health Status, 24 Chocimska str., 00-791, Warsaw, Poland

    Paweł Goryński

  4. Second Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Central Teaching Hospital, Medical University of Warsaw, Banacha 1a, 02-097, Warsaw, Poland

    Andrzej Kański

  5. Integrative Physiology, Department of Medical Cellbiology, Uppsala University, 751 23, Uppsala, Sweden

    Michael Hultström

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Weigl, W., Adamski, J., Goryński, P. et al. Mortality rate is higher in Polish intensive care units than in other European countries. Intensive Care Med 43, 1430–1432 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-017-4804-2

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