MIMIC-IV aline study v0.1

Initial release of the reproduction of a study on the utility of arterial lines (alines) in hemodynamically stable patients. This reproduction is done in MIMIC-IV.

The original article was published in CHEST:

Hsu DJ, Feng M, Kothari R, Zhou H, Chen KP, Celi LA. The association between indwelling arterial catheters and mortality in hemodynamically stable patients with respiratory failure: a propensity score analysis. Chest. 2015 Dec 1;148(6):1470-6. doi:10.1378/chest.15-0516

The original study was performed in MIMIC-II, which contains an earlier patient cohort from the same hospital.