... hospital mortality and length of hospital stay, and if applicable, mortality in ICU, the length of stay in the ICU, and the duration of mechanical ventilation.Available online http://ccforum.com/content/11/5/R96Page ... study. All authors contrib-uted to the study design and interpretation of the data. FFV,FG, TH, OP, AA, GG, AA, and IR participated in the acquisi-tion of the data. NDF performed the data analysis ... furtherstudy.IntroductionConceptually, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) isan inflammatory lung injury involving both endothelial and epi-thelial layers of the alveolar-capillary membrane,...