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SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS GROUP (SRG)
 

Aims & Missions

The ESICM Systematic Review Unit established in 2010, to provide an international collaboration focused on critical care systematic reviews. The primary goal is to highlight the role of systematic reviews (SR) and meta-analyses (MA) in clinical research, to facilitate access of high quality SRs and MAs to practising clinicians thereby promoting the use of evidence based medicine. It is the first society of intensive or critical care medicine to provide its members, patients, public health authorities and general public with an organised database of systematic reviews and diagnostic interventions pertaining to intensive care.

 


The Board

Chair:   Djillali Annane, France

Deputy: Mark Hamilton, UK

 

Editors:

  • David Noble, UK           
  • Duncan Young, UK
  • George Dimpopoulos, Greece
  • John Carlisle, Uk
  • Jordi Rello, Spain
  • Leopold Eberhart, Germany
  • Nicola Petrucci, Italy
  • Stephan Kettner, Austria

 


Database

The web platform for the database for SRs is currently under construction and should go ‘live’ at the Annual Congress in Berlin, October 2011.
Access will be freely available to all ESICM members.
The web platform will provide facilities for anyone interested to submit a SR. Submitted reviews will be accessed by one of the editors to confirm eligibility before inclusion into the database.
In the interest of maintaining the evidence up-to-date, the database will have separate sections for current reviews, which can only be up to two years old; and previous reviews.

 


ESICM Systematic Reviews

The SRG aims to identify areas in critical care medicine where reviews are lacking or out-of date and invite authors to undertake these reviews. Currently there are 14 systematic reviews in progress. Authors do not have to be ESICM members, however, at least one author must be a primary author of a clinical trial relative to the topic or expert.

It is hoped that following peer review, these will be published in ‘Intensive Care Medicine’ and added to the database.

 


Clinical Evidence Handbook

A pocket-sized handbook will be produced by the group biennially. This will contain summaries of the latest SRs, with commentary from experts and clinical recommendations. The inaugural edition will be launched at the Annual Congress in Berlin.