Sachin Yende 1,2 , MD MS;
Derek C. Angus 1,2 , MD, MPH
(Example of author’s names are above. Please replace it with your name and your senior author’s name.)
1 The Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness (CRISMA)
Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2 Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
(Please add your institutional affiliations. An example is shown above)
Word count: xx words (Provide word count, without including the word count for abstract, citation, and references. The word count should not exceed 900 words)
Address for correspondence
(Please replace the address below with your senior author’s address)
Sachin Yende, MD MS
642A Scaife Hall, 3550 Terrace Street
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15261.
E-mail: yendes@upmc.edu
; Telephone: 412 647 8467; Fax: 412 647 8060

EXPANDED ABSTRACT
(Cut and paste the abstract below. You may have to edit the abstract to fit each heading. Try to avoid changing the abstract too much).
Background – The xx.
Methods
Objective:
xx
Design:
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Setting:
xx
Subjects: xx
Intervention: xx
Outcomes: xx
Results – The xx.
Conclusions – The.
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Citation
Provide the reference of the paper that you are writing the commentary about.
(e.g. Lowy I, Molrine DC, Leav BA, Blair BM, Baxter R, Gerding DN, Nichol G, Thomas
WD Jr, Leney M, Sloan S, Hay CA, Ambrosino DM. Treatment with monoclonal antibodies against Clostridium difficile toxins. N Engl J Med. 2010 Jan 21;362(3):197-205.
PubMed PMID: 20089970. This is available on www.pubmed.gov)
Commentary
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
Recommendation
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Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests. (Please change this statement if you or your mentor has a competing interest(s) to declare).
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References
You can either add references using the Critical Care format or insert the
Pubmed ID in the text and I will pull the references.
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