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Study Design. We identified adult nonsurgical patients who required MV during their hospitalization. We excluded surgical patients, patients transferred to or from another acute care hospital, and patients admitted to low hospital MV volume hospitals (<25 cases in 2016). For patients with multiple admissions in which they required MV in 2016, we identified one hospitalization at random for analysis. Abbreviations: MV – mechanical ventilation.
