PRAGMATIC CRITICAL CARE RESEARCH GROUP

The Pragmatic Critical Care Research Group (PCCRG) was founded in 2013 by Matthew Semler, MD, MSCI; David Janz, MD, MSc; and Todd Rice, MD, MSc of Vanderbilt University to improve care for critically ill patients by using clinical trials to compare commonly used treatments. Over time, the group has grown into a multi-center clinical trials network that includes more than 100 emergency medicine, anesthesia, and critical care medicine physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, respiratory therapists, and other personnel from 20 health systems across the United States... We're a network developed to design and conduct comparative effectiveness clinical trials in critical care... Our network has completed 15 randomized trials enrolling almost 40,000 patients. Results of these trials, including 5 published in the New England Journal of Medicine or JAMA, have identified common, inexpensive treatments that improve patient outcomes (e.g., use of balanced crystalloids rather than..

Primary location: Nashville United States