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. 2015 Apr 27;13:98. doi: 10.1186/s12916-015-0335-2

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Anthony Delaney, MBBS, MSc, PhD, FACEM, FCICM, is a Fellow of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and the College of Intensive Care Medicine. He is a Senior Staff Specialist in the Malcolm Fisher Department of Intensive Care Medicine at Royal North Shore Hospital, a Senior Lecturer at Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, and an adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventative Health at Monash University.