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Available online /content/11/5/169 Commentary Acute lung injury outside the ICU: a significant problem Simon J Finney and Timothy W Evans Department of Critical Care, Imperial College School of Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, SW3 6NP, London, UK Corresponding author: Timothy W Evans, t.evans@rbht.nhs.uk Published: 26 October 2007 Critical Care 2007, 11:169 (doi:10.1186/cc6128) This article is online at /content/11/5/169 ? 2007 BioMed Central Ltd See related research by Ferguson et al., /content/11/5/R96 Abstract The incidence of ARDS is influenced by the underlying clinical