The authors thank all participating nurses and physicians. Likewise we would like to thank the national coordinators (please see affiliations below). Johan Malmgren, Victoria Metaxa, Anna K. Reyners, Katerina Rusinova, Danny Talmor, Anne-Pascale Meert, Laura Cancelliere, Laszlo Zubek, Paulo Mai, Andrej Michalsen and participating centers and local investigators: Participating centers and local investigators: Belgium: University Hospital, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels (Herbert Spapen, Marie-Claire Van Malderen, Godelieve Opdenacker), Leuven University Hospital, Leuven (Geert Meyfroidt, Dieter Mesotten, Joost Wauters, Marie Van Laer and Alexander Wilmer, Joost Wauters, Helga Ceunen), ZNA Stuivenberg, Antwerpen (Inneke E De Laet, Anita Jans), Ghent University Hospital, Gent (Dominique Benoit, Sandra Oeyen, Ingrid Herck, Stephanie Bracke, Charlotte Clauwaert), Institut Jules Bordet, Bruxelles (Meert Anne-Pascale, Leclercq Nathalie), CHU-Brugmann, Bruxelles (Devriendt Jacques), CHU Saint Pierre, Bruxelles (Dechamps Philippe), Czech Republic: Liberec District Hospital, Liberec (Ivana Zykova), Masaryk University, Brno and University Hospital, Brno (Jan Malaska), Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague (Matous Schmidt), Hospital and Polyclinic Havirov, Havirov (Igor Satinsky), Institute for Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Prague (Eva Kieslichova), 3rd Medical Department, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital, Prague (Jarmila Krizova), Karlovy Vary District Hospital, Karlovy Vary (Robert Janda), Pardubice District Hospital, Pardubice (Magdalena Fortova, Jiri Matyas), First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague (Katerina Rusinova, Ondrej Kopecky), Denmark: Herning Hospital, Herning (Christian Alves Køhler Pedersen), Kolding Hospital, Kolding (Stine Hebsgaard), Vejle Hospital, Vejle (Rikke Frank Aagaard Johnsen), Holbæk Hospital, Holbæk (Tina Charlotte Bitsch Hansen), France: Saint-Etienne University Hospital and Jacques Lisfranc Medical School, Saint-Etienne (Michael Darmon), Saint-Louis University Hospital, APHP, Université Paris-7, Paris (Danielle Reuter, Elie Azoulay), Institut Paoli Calmette, Marseilles (Djamel Mokart), Montfermeil Hospital, Montfermeil (François Vincent), Germany: University Hospital Jena, Jena (Christiane S. Hartog), Viersen General Hospital, Viersen (Peter Gretenkort), Tettnang Hospital, Tettnang (Andrej Michalsen), Greece: Agia Olga Hospital, Athens (Aikaterini Kounougeri), Evangelismos Hospital, Athens (Serafim Nanas), Agios Pavlos Hospital, Thessaloniki (Despina Papachristou), AHEPA University Hospital, Thessaloniki, (Ioanna Soultati), G.Gennimatas Hospital, Thessaloniki (Dimitrios Lathyris), Hippokratio General Hospital, Thessaloniki (Marili Pasakiotou), Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki (Marina Oikonomou), Hungary: Semmelweis University Budapest, Budapest (Gábor Élő, Orsolya Szűcs), Kaposi Mór Teaching Hospital, Kaposvár University, Kaposvár (János Fogas), St. Stephen and St. Leslie Metropolitan Hospital, Budapest (Ilona Bobek), Italy: Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria, “Maggiore della Carità”, Novara, and Department of Translational Medicine, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara (Francesco Della Corte, Carlo Olivieri, Rosanna Vaschetto, Laura Cancelliere), Ospedale Civile San Salvatore, and Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences (MeSVA), University of L’Aquila and Department of Emergency, San Salvatore Hospital, L’Aquila (Franco Marinangeli, Tullio Pozone, Alessandra Ciccozzi), The Netherlands: Canisius Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis, Nijmegen (A. Schouten, Monique Bruns), Medical Center Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden (Rik T. Gerritsen, Matty Koopmans), Erasmus University Hospital of Rotterdam (Erwin Kompanje, Ditty van Duijn), University of Groningen and University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen (Jan G. Zijlstra, Anne KL Reyners), Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis Assen, Assen (Johan G. Lutisan), Portugal: Hospital S.António, Porto (Raquel Monte, José António Pinho, Pedro Pimenta), CHVNG, Vila Nova de Gaia (Paula Fernandes, Ana Isabel Paixão), Instituto Português de Oncologia, Porto (Filomena Faria), Sweden: Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg (Johan A. Malmgren), Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Östra, Gothenburg (Bertil Andersson), Skåne University Hospital, Malmö (Eva Åkerman), Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska (Andreas Hvarfner), The Hospital of Norrköping, Norrköping (Robert Svensson), United Kingdom: King’s College Hospital, London (Victoria Metaxa), USA: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston MA (Daniel Talmor, Ariel Mueller, Valerie Banner-Goodspeed), Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, Valencia, CA (Dee Rickett), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (Michael E. Wilson, Richard Hinds).
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