Meta-trial of awake prone positioning with nasal high flow therapy: Invitation to join a pandemic collaborative research effort

Jie Li, Ivan Pavlov, John G Laffey, Oriol Roca, Sara Mirza, Yonatan Perez, Bairbre McNicholas, David Cosgrave, David Vines, Elsa Tavernier, Stephan Ehrmann, Jie Li, Ivan Pavlov, John G Laffey, Oriol Roca, Sara Mirza, Yonatan Perez, Bairbre McNicholas, David Cosgrave, David Vines, Elsa Tavernier, Stephan Ehrmann

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Keywords: Acute respiratory distress syndrome; COVID-19 [MeSH]; Meta-analysis [MeSH]; Pandemics [MeSH]; Research design [MeSH].

Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Competing Interest JL discloses research support from Fisher & Paykel Healthcare for another research project. IP has been a speaker for Fisher & Pakyel Healthcare within the last 3 years. All compensation was paid to the charitable foundation at the hospital where he works, and he did not personally receive any compensation. OR provides consultancy to Hamilton Medical but he did not receieved any personal fee. All compensations were received by the Institute of Research of his Institution. He received speaker fees by Air Liquide. SE received unrestricted research grants, travel fee reimbursements and speaker fees from Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, consulting fees from La Diffusion Technique Française, consulting fees and unrestricted research grants from Aerogen Ltd., and an unrestricted research grant from Hamilton medical. Other authors have no conflict of interest to declare.

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