ReviewCritical care science2024
Update on the Epimed Monitor Adult ICU Database: 15 years of its use in national registries, quality improvement initiatives and clinical research.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Pediatric neurocritical care and neuro-oncology in Brazil: ten-year experience at a reference unit.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2026Observational
- Quality Assessment of the Iran Intensive Care Unit Registry: A Validation Evaluation Using International Medical Registry Frameworks (2017-2024).Iranian journal of medical sciences · 2026Article
- Clinical Characteristics, Infection Profiles, and Hospital Outcomes of Intensive Care Unit Patients Undergoing Antimicrobial Therapy with Ceftolozane/Tazobactam: A Multicentric Retrospective Analysis.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Augmenting the Simplified Acute Physiology Score II for intensive care unit mortality prediction and benchmarking: a French nationwide study.Critical care (London, England) · 2026Article
- Contemporary validation of a SAPS 3 customized version in patients admitted to Brazilian and Uruguayan intensive care units: a multicenter cohort study.Critical care science · 2026Observational
- Beyond bed counts: equity and access to adult intensive care in middle-income countries, the Brazilian case.Critical care science · 2026Article
- Characteristics of intensive care unit registries - findings from the Global Registry ICU Datasets (GRID) survey.Critical care science · 2026Article
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- Clinical characteristics, complications and outcomes of critically ill patients with Dengue in Brazil, 2012-2024: A nationwide, multicenter cohort study.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2025Article
- Organosilane for surface cleaning in intensive care units: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial with crossover.Critical care science · 2025Article
- How to use intensive care unit scoring systems: a practical guide for the intensivist.Critical care science · 2025Article
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Abstract
In recent decades, several databases of critically ill patients have become available in both low-, middle-, and high-income countries from all continents. These databases are also rich sources of data for the surveillance of emerging diseases, intensive care unit performance evaluation and benchmarking, quality improvement projects and clinical research. The Epimed Monitor database is turning 15 years old in 2024 and has become one of the largest of these databases. In recent years, there has been rapid geographical expansion, an increase in the number of participating intensive care units and hospitals, and the addition of several new variables and scores, allowing a more complete characterization of patients to facilitate multicenter clinical studies. As of December 2023, the database was being used regularly for 23,852 beds in 1,723 intensive care units and 763 hospitals from ten countries, totaling more than 5.6 million admissions. In addition, critical care societies have adopted the system and its database to establish national registries and international collaborations. In the present review, we provide an updated description of the database; report experiences of its use in critical care for quality improvement initiatives, national registries and clinical research; and explore other potential future perspectives and developments.
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