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Observed mortality by quintile of measured or estimated dead-space fraction: (a) among patients with measured dead-space fraction (VD/VT Cohort); (b) among patients without measured dead-space fraction (ARDSNet Cohort). Quintiles were calculated separately for each formulation of dead-space fraction.
