United States Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group

James M Blum; Peter E Morris; Greg S Martin; Michelle N Gong; Satish Bhagwanjee; Charles B Cairns; J Perren Cobb

doi:10.1378/chest.12-2287

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United States Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group

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United States Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group

James M Blum, Peter E Morris, Greg S Martin, Michelle N Gong, Satish Bhagwanjee, Charles B Cairns and J Perren Cobb

Chest, Vol.143(3), pp.808-813

03/2013

DOI: 10.1378/chest.12-2287

PMCID: PMC3590888

PMID: 23460158

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Abstract

The United States Critical Illness and Injury Trials (USCIIT) Group is an inclusive, grassroots "network of networks" with the dual missions of fostering investigator-initiated hypothesis testing and developing recommendations for strategic plans at a national level. The USCIIT Group's transformational approach enlists multidisciplinary investigative teams across institutions, critical illness and injury professional organizations, federal agencies that fund clinical and translational research, and industry partners. The USCIIT Group is endorsed by all major critical illness and injury professional organizations spanning the specialties of anesthesiology, emergency medicine, internal medicine, neurology, nursing, pediatrics, pharmacy and nutrition, surgery and trauma, and respiratory and physical therapy. Recent successes provide the opportunity to significantly increase the dialogue necessary to advance clinical and translational research on behalf of our community. More than 200 investigators are now involved across > 30 academic and community hospitals. Collectively, USCIIT Group investigators have enrolled > 10,000 patients from academic and community hospitals in studies during the last 3 years. To keep our readership "ahead of the curve," this article provides a vision for critical illness and injury research based on (1) programmatic organization of large-scale, multicentered collaborative studies and (2) annual strategic planning at a national scale across disciplines and stakeholders.

Critical Illness - rehabilitation

Intensive Care Units

Program Development

Multicenter Studies as Topic

Multiple Organ Failure - prevention & control

United States

Humans

Critical Illness - therapy

Biomedical Research - organization & administration

Outcome Assessment, Health Care

National Institutes of Health (U.S.) - organization & administration

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Title: Subtitle: United States Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group
Creators: James M Blum - Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Peter E Morris - Department of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Greg S Martin - Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Michelle N Gong - Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, New York, NY
Satish Bhagwanjee - Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Charles B Cairns - Department of Emergency Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
J Perren Cobb - Departments of Anesthesiology and Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Electronic address: jpcobb@partners.org
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Chest, Vol.143(3), pp.808-813
Publisher: United States
DOI: 10.1378/chest.12-2287
PMID: 23460158
PMCID: PMC3590888
ISSN: 0012-3692
eISSN: 1931-3543
Grant note: U13 GM083407 / NIGMS NIH HHS U01 HL108712 / NHLBI NIH HHS
Language: English
Date published: 03/2013
Academic Unit: Anesthesia
Record Identifier: 9984013161702771

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