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# Acknowledgements

The eICU Collaborative Research Database is made available largely through the work of Philips Healthcare and collaborators at MIT Laboratory for Computational Physiology. If you use the data, code or algorithms, please provide a citation to this project.

# eICU Collaborative Research Database citation

If you use the eICU Collaborative Research Database in your work, please cite the following paper:

>  The eICU Collaborative Research Database, a freely available multi-center database for critical care research. Pollard TJ, Johnson AEW, Raffa JD, Celi LA, Mark RG and Badawi O. Scientific Data (2018). DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.178">10.1038/sdata.2018.178</a>. Available at: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2018178">https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2018178</a>

BibTeX entry:

```
@article{pollard2018eicu,
  title={The {eICU Collaborative Research Database}, a freely available multi-center database for critical care research},
  author={Pollard, Tom J and Johnson, Alistair E W and Raffa, Jesse D and Celi, Leo A and Mark, Roger G and Badawi, Omar},
  journal={Scientific data},
  volume={5},
  number={1},
  pages={1--13},
  year={2018},
  publisher={Nature Publishing Group}
}
```

# Ethical approval

Most journals require a statement regarding approval for use of the dataset, and you may consider including the following statement:

> The study is exempt from institutional review board approval due to the retrospective design, lack of direct patient intervention, and the security schema, for which the re-identification risk was certified as meeting safe harbor standards by an independent privacy expert (Privacert, Cambridge, MA) (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Certification no. 1031219-2).

# Research groups

- [MIT Lab for Computational Physiology](http://lcp.mit.edu/)
- [Philips Health Care](http://www.healthcare.philips.com/main/index.wpd)

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