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The authors gratefully acknowledge the comments made by the researchers. We will analyze the methodologies currently used by our group and the cited studies to understand the differences described in the letter. Additionally, we would like to emphasize that the study was a prospective cohort study, in which the researchers collected data on a daily basis from the hospital specialty units included in the study. The hospital where the study was conducted is part of the largest hospital complex in Latin America. It is a high complexity tertiary care hospital located in Sao Paulo city. This factor contributed to the heterogeneity of the study population because many units with different specialties were included.

In our study,⁽⁾ the parameters of noninvasive ventilation (NIV) that were evaluated were collected on the last day of NIV use, i.e., the day of NIV withdrawal due to either success or failure. The parameters at the time of collection were recorded and compared.

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