1. Department of Intensive Care, Erasme University Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
2. Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Uniklinikum Jena, Jena, Germany
3. Bloomsbury Institute of Intensive Care Medicine, University College London, London, England
4. Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Multidisciplinary Intensive Care Research Organization, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
5. Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, Universidad de Barcelona, CIBERES, Barcelona, Spain
6. Intensive Care Department, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
7. Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
8. George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
9. Department of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
10. Anesthesia and Intensive Care, San Martino Policlinico Hospital, IRCCS for Oncology and Neuroscience, Genoa, Italy
11. Department of Surgical Science, University of Turin, University Hospital Città della Salute e della Scienza, Turin, Italy
12. Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia, Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Jakarta
13. Medical and Infectious Diseases ICU, AP-HP, Bichat-Claude Bernard University Hospital, Paris, France
14. Medical ICU, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China
15. Critical Care Department, Cliniques Universitaires St Luc, UCL, Brussels, Belgium
16. Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
17. Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, SWBH Trust, Birmingham, England
18. Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Adultos, Hospital Juárez de México, Mexico City
19. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
20. Medanta Institute of Critical Care and Anesthesiology, Medanta The Medicity, Gurugram, India
21. Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
22. Department of Anesthesiology, Section on Critical Care Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
23. Outcomes Research Consortium, Cleveland, Ohio
24. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
25. Level l Trauma Centre, Netcare Union/Clinton Hospitals, Alberton, South Africa
26. Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania