Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Establishing the Irish Critical Care Trials Group: ‘who wins in battle makes many calculations before the battle is fought’. | Available online http content 12 5 183 Commentary Establishing the Irish Critical Care Trials Group who wins in battle makes many calculations before the battle is fought Brian O Brien and Dermot Phelan Department of Intensive Care Medicine The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Eccles Street Dublin 7 Ireland Corresponding author Brian O Brien drbobrien@ Published 9 October 2008 This article is online at http content 12 5 183 2008 BioMed Central Ltd Critical Care 2008 12 183 doi cc7014 See related research by the Irish Critical Care Trials Group http content 12 5 R121 Abstract Quality research requiring large numbers of participants in the intensive care unit ICU population requires multicentre collaboration. Although logistically challenging this methodology reduces the influence of individual units and has greater validity and broader relevance to patients and practitioners. The nascent Irish Critical Care Trials Group opens additional such opportunities. In the accompanying epidemiologic study the group present data gathered over 10 weeks of 2006 describing 1 029 patients from 10 Irish ICUs representing over one-half of Ireland s critical care bed capacity. The data depict a busy service with 78 of admissions being emergent and with a moderately high 7 readmission rate. While recognising that there were missing data the outcomes in organ failure and sepsis - where international definitions exist - and the ICU survival rate 83 were consistent with international standards. The achievement of this planned first epidemiological step lays the foundation for the conduct of prospective scientific studies. These studies might occur in Ireland or in cooperation with other audit scientific groups such as the UK s Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre the European Critical Care Research Network or others. This brings us a small step closer to the prospect of global high-volume studies in critical care.
