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  1. Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Minnesota and Regions Hospital, Minneapolis, MS 11203B, 640 Jackson St., Saint Paul, MN, 55101, USA

    John J. Marini

  2. Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

    Philip S. Crooke

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Medical University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

    Luciano Gattinoni

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Marini, J.J., Crooke, P.S. & Gattinoni, L. Conceptual simplicity in pursuit of precision. Intensive Care Med 47, 920–921 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-021-06424-z

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