The Effect of Pulmonary Artery Catheter Use on Costs and Long-Term Outcomes of Acute Lung Injury

• Gilles Clermont ,

  * E-mail: clermontg@upmc.edu

  Affiliation CRISMA (Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness) Center, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Lan Kong,

  Affiliations CRISMA (Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness) Center, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Lisa A. Weissfeld,

  Affiliations CRISMA (Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness) Center, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Judith R. Lave,

  Affiliation Department of Health Policy & Management, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Gordon D. Rubenfeld,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Mark S. Roberts,

  Affiliations Department of Health Policy & Management, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Departments of Medicine and Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Alfred F. Connors Jr.,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Gordon R. Bernard,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• B. Taylor Thompson,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Arthur P. Wheeler,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Derek C. Angus,

  Affiliations CRISMA (Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness) Center, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Health Policy & Management, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• for the NHLBI ARDS Clinical Trials Network