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Acknowledgements

The following members were critical in aiding and supporting this study: Sharon Allen, Executive Director, Neurocritical Care Society. Jose Suarez, MD, Professor of Neurology, Director, Division of Neurosciences Critical Care, Johns Hopkins University. James Szalados, MD, Director of Neurocritical Care, Director, Surgical Critical Care, and SICU, Rochester Regional Health Center. Renee’ Hebert Martin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina.

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  1. Department of Neurological Surgery, Vickie and Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience, Thomas Jefferson University, 909 Walnut Street, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, USA

    Syed Omar Shah

  2. Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA

    Julius Gene S. Latorre

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Neurocritical Care Society Survey Working Group

  • Asma M. Moheet
  • , Navaz Karanjia
  • , Abhijit V. Lele
  • , Peter Papadakos
  •  & Virginia Shipes

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SOS designed, executed, analyzed study and drafted manuscript. JGSL designed, executed, analyzed study and drafted manuscript. NCSSWG designed, executed, analyzed study and revised manuscript.

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Shah, S.O., Latorre, J.G.S. & Neurocritical Care Society Survey Working Group. 2019 Neurocritical Care Survey: Physician Compensation, Unit Staffing and Structure. Neurocrit Care 33, 303–307 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12028-020-01032-z

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