The Scientific Office of the CC SCN facilitates research and innovation through the
promotion, adoption and diffusion of evidencebased initiatives in critical care (https …

Background Large amounts of scientific evidence are generated, but not implemented into
patient care (the 'knowledge-to-care'gap). We identified and prioritized knowledge-to-care …

From the perspective of critical care medicine, health services research has languished in
the shadows until recently. Why is this? Health services researchers take as their topic the …

Background Research in critical care extends from the bench to the bedside, involving
multiple departments, specialties, and funding organizations. Because of this diversity, it has …

Rationale: Several intensive care unit (ICU) organizational practices have been associated
with improved patient outcomes. However, the uptake of these evidence-based practices is …

Critically ill patients require intensive monitoring and costly treatments. Despite advances,
however, mortality remains high. Unfortunately, delays often exist in the publication and …

Large-scale clinical trials networks are best suited for understanding how care is delivered,
generating evidence to minimize unnecessary heterogeneity of patient care, and testing …

Ihave had the privilege of practicing critical care nursing in 2 countries, Canada and the
United States. Although these health care systems and their impact on our professional and …

Recent decades have witnessed an extraordinary expansion of our understanding of how to
treat patients with critical illness. 1 Now more than ever, the ways in which we provide critical …

Quality improvement is not sexy, but it must be a top priority for the optimal functioning of
intensive care units (ICUs) and the outcomes of critically ill patients. In the last 30 years …