Can We Cluster ICU Treatment Strategies for Traumatic Brain Injury by Hospital Treatment Preferences?

"Conflicts of interest All authors are (partly) funded by the CENTER-TBI study, which is in essence a comparative effectiveness research study. Findings of this study concern the use of CENTER-TBI in comparative effectiveness research, which could be noted as competing interests. We confirm that the manuscript complies with all instructions to authors and that authorship requirements have been met and the final manuscript was approved by all authors. Further we confirm that this manuscript has not been published elsewhere and is not under consideration by another journal"

"Source of support The authors’ work on this study is partly funded by the European Union seventh Framework Program (grant 602150) for Collaborative European Neurotrauma Effectiveness Research in Traumatic Brain Injury (CENTER-TBI). Additional support for CENTER-TBI was obtained from the Hannelore Kohl Stiftung (Germany), OneMind (USA), Integra LifeSciences Corporation (USA), and NeuroTrauma Sciences (USA)."

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