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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Care Med. 2019 Jan;47(1):15–22. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000003424

Figure 1. Organisational flowchart of the study.

Figure 1

High quality matching: using the Matching Algorithm for Consistent Results in Anonymised Linkage (MACRAL) algorithm to apply deterministic record linkage and probabilistic record linkage methods to the set of linked variables (15); First critical care episode: re-admission episodes during the study period were excluded; Discharged alive: patients who died while on the ICU were excluded; Continuing ICU care: patients who were transferred internally within the same critical care unit were excluded.