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Hopital de Bellevue; Saint Etienne, France. Washington University; Saint Louis, MO. National Institutes of Health; Bethesda, MD. Address requests for reprints to: Charles Natanson, MD, Critical Care Medicine Department, Building 10, Room 7D43, 9000 Rockville Pike, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892. We thank Steven M. Banks, PhD, for the statistical analysis. We are also grateful to David W. Alling, MD, PhD, and the statistician for Critical Care Medicine who reviewed the statistical analysis. We also thank Robert L. Danner, MD, Peter Q. Eichacker, MD, Robert E. Cunnion, MD, Anthony F. Suffredini, MD, FCCM, Jonathan E. Sevransky, MD, Elizabeth Piercey, and Chris Knuth for their editorial comments.
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