Inter-country variability over time in the mortality of mechanically ventilated patients.
Oscar PeñuelasAlfonso MurielVictor AbrairaFernando Frutos-VivarJordi ManceboKonstantinos RaymondosBin DuArnaud W ThilleFernando RíosMarco GonzálezLorenzo Del-SorboNiall D FergusonMaria Del Carmen MarínBruno Valle PinheiroMarco Antonio SoaresNicolas NinSalvatore M MaggioreAndrew BerstenPravin AminNahit CakarGee Young SuhFekri AbrougManuel JibajaDimitros MatamisAmine Ali ZeggwaghYuda SutherasanAntonio AnzuetoAndrés EstebanPublished in: Intensive care medicine (2020)
These findings suggest that country could contribute, independently of confounder variables, to outcome. The magnitude of the effect of country decreased over time. Clinical trials registered with http://www.clinicaltrials.gov (NCT02731898).