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ICM Editors' reply to a letter by Wiedermann “Institutional recommendation for the withdrawal of scientific articles from Joachim Boldt”

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ICM Editorial Board: Giuseppe Citerio, Department of Medicine and Surgery, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano - Bicocca, Monza,Italy; Samir Jaber, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Montpellier Saint Eloi University Hospital, and PhyMedExp, University of Montpellier, INSERM, CNRS, Montpellier, France; Aoife Abbey, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, United Kingdom; Thomas Bein, Faculty of Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany; Katherine Brown, Cardiac and Critical Care Division, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK; Alain Combes, Sorbonne Université INSERM Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMRS) 1166, Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, Service de Médecine Intensive-Réanimation, Institut de Cardiologie, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP) Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France; Audrey De Jong, Saint Eloi ICU, Montpellier University Hospital, PhyMedExp, INSERM, CNRS, Montpellier, France; Julie Helms, Strasbourg University Hospital, Strasbourg, France; Geert Meyfroidt, Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine, Academic Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Laveena Munshi, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, Sinai Health System/University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Marlies Ostermann, Department of Critical Care and Nephrology, King's College London, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK; Pedro Póvoa, NOVA Medical School, CHRC, New University of Lisbon, Campo dos Mártires da Pátria, 130, 1169-056, Lisbon, Portugal / Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Research Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, OUH Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark / Polyvalent Intensive Care Unit, Hospital de São Francisco Xavier, CHLO, Lisbon, Portugal; Otavio T. Ranzani, Pulmonary Division, Heart Institute, Universidade de Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil and Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain; Claudio Sandroni, Istituto Anestesiologia e Rianimazione, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "Agostino Gemelli" IRCCS, Rome, Italy; Manu Shankar-Hari, Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre, London, United Kingdom and Department of Intensive Care, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, United Kingdom and Division of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom.

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Citerio, G., on behalf of the ICM Editorial Board. ICM Editors' reply to a letter by Wiedermann “Institutional recommendation for the withdrawal of scientific articles from Joachim Boldt”. Intensive Care Med 48, 1251–1252 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-022-06813-y

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