About us
We’re an effective and impactful collaboration of critical care researchers across Australia and New Zealand, with the shared goal of improving clinical outcomes for patients requiring intensive care. In the process, we also identify treatments and care regimes that are efficient and cost-effective, driving sustainability in critical care services.
Established in 2006, we’re supported by funding from the NHMRC and Monash University, and located at Monash’s School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Melbourne, Australia.
Our own research portfolio includes large-scale clinical trials, observational studies, feasibility projects, health economics investigations and qualitative research projects. We also offer a range of services to support other researchers, from subject area advice through to total project management.
Our aims
- Conduct high impact, large-scale, investigator-initiated clinical trials designed to determine best and most cost-effective practice in Intensive Care Medicine (ICM)
- Increase the quality of clinical trial design and biostatistical analysis in this field
- Be readily accessible to all Australian and New Zealand clinician-researchers in critical care
- Expand the national and international reach of large Australian and New Zealand led trials
- Introduce systems to integrate research results into clinical practice by promulgating research-based practice guidelines
- Develop integrated clinical research programs that provide the training ground for future clinical trialists in the field of ICM
- Encourage and support clinician researchers in research theory, study design, study conduct, data analysis and scientific writing