Paper and WOC

[Charlotte Maschke]

Dear challenge organizers, 

I have two questions concerning the dataset and paper: 

1) The page limit says 4 pages. Does this include references? 

2) When patients have a bad outcome and died, is there any information available about whether they died naturally or due to withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment? This can be a large source of error in our models and I want to make sure I correctly discuss this properly in the paper. 

Thank you.

[PhysioNet Challenge]

Dear Charlotte,

Good questions.

Yes, the 4-page limit for the conference proceedings papers includes the references. Please see this webpage for resources, including a template and checklist, for preparing your paper:
https://moody-challenge.physionet.org/2023/papers/#preparing-your-paper

Unfortunately, we don't have more precise information about the cause of death, including whether or not deceased patients received life-sustaining treatment up to the time of death. The neurological outcomes, including death, were generally determined 3-6 months after cardiac arrest.

Best,

Matt

(On behalf of the Challenge team.)

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