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Aims of the ANZIC-RC

The principal aims of the ANZIC-RC are to:

  • Conduct ongoing high-quality, large-scale randomised controlled trials (RCTs) directed at determining the best and most effective practice in Australian Intensive Care Medicine (ICM);
  • Improve the quality of trial design and biostatistical analysis;
  • Increase the efficiency of data management;
  • Develop integrated clinical research programs that provide the training ground for future clinical trialists in the field of ICM;
  • Develop additional links with other international intensive care societies with the aim of advancing international research programs;
  • Facilitate applications for funding from public and private national and international funding bodies;
  • Increase the involvement of smaller Intensive Care Units (ICUs) in RCTs to maximise the number of trials that can be performed and increase the generalisability of trial findings;
  • Encourage and support clinician researchers in research theory, study design and conduct, data analysis and scientific writing;
  • Consolidate a research culture within ICM in Australia, by maximising the accessibility of intensive care clinicians to a high-quality research system with sufficient infrastructure, regardless of an individual unit’s academic status, geographical location, expertise and experience;
  • Introduce systems to integrate research results into clinical practice by promulgating research based practice guidelines.