LDS Hospital
Salt Lake City, UT
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Alan H. Morris, M.D. |
| Contact information: | 325 Eighth Avenue |
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| Program Title: | Reengineering Clinical Research in Clinical Care -Critical Care Decision | |
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Intensive care accounts for 20% of the total hospital health care expenditures in the US. Although the majority of care occurs in adult ICUs, pediatric critical illness is a source of significant short and long-term morbidity and care of these children consumes significant health care resources. Currently, well-designed adequately powered clinical trials are uncommon in adult and rare in pediatric critical care. We aim to definitively evaluate the feasibility of a plan to expedite the conduct, improve the data and research quality, and increase the efficiency of ICU clinical research. To achieve this we will establish a new ICU clinical investigative strategy with currently operational integrated electronic tools (Utah Clinical Trial Toolbox) that can link different clinical research networks. This strategy will combine multiple lCUs in a large-scale clinical laboratory that should more efficiently conduct clinical ICU studies and, with the same common inter-operable electronic tools, could rapidly extend ICU research results to clinical ICU practice. |
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