THE ESICM EUROPEAN REGISTRY IN INTENSIVE CARE: ERICWe are asking all intensive care clinicians, doctors, nurses and allied health professionals, to provide limited information about their intensive care unit and hospital, as the basis for a database on international intensive care structures and organisation. We know that there are substantial variations in intensive care facilities between countries, and that these variations may influence clinical care and outcomes. There is no reliable and comprehensive source of information about intensive care in Europe: we do not even know how many ICUs there are, or how many critically ill patients are treated each year. This limits our ability to compete for research resources, or discharge our educational responsibilities effectively within the European Community. The Registry will help us do that. Importantly, it will also facilitate electronic communication between members and allow us to obtain and represent the views of the intensive care community more accurately.
Copyrights and ownership of the data.The data will be owned solely by the ESICM on behalf of the contributors and will not be used for commercial purposes. Secure password access is guaranteed. Summary data will be freely available to all contributors once the database achieves a useful size for analysis. Subject to protocol review by the ESICM Research Committee and approval by the Executive Committee, approved projects within the ECCRN will have access to this information for research purposes only. The communications database will be used by the ESICM to contact members and contributors for research, education and professional development purposes only. The data will not be sold or offered to third parties. |