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The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre

Project Coordinator / Executive Officer: Ms Siouxzy Morrison

Investigators: Professor Jamie Cooper, Professor Rinaldo Bellomo, Professor John McNeil

Background: The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre (ANZIC-RC) is a bi-national intensive care clinical research methods centre. The ANZIC-RC assists with the design, funding and execution of clinical trials. It has access to experienced intensive care unit (ICU) researchers, data management and bio-statistical consultants, experienced project managers, epidemiologists and health economists. The ANZIC-RC has established comprehensive research programs from surveys and pilot studies through to large multi-centred, randomised controlled trials. It has the ability to support small, medium and/or large clinical trials.

Aims and Methods: 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 and New ZealandIntensive 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
  • Developlinks with other international intensive care societies to advance 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 and New Zealand 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, expertiseor experience, and
  • Introduce systems to integrate research results into clinical practice by promulgating research-based practice guidelines.

Results: see http://www.anzicrc.monash.org/staff.html

Status: Ongoing

Staff: Ms Siouxzy Morrison, Dr Alistair Nichol, Dr Michael Bailey, Dr Cécile Aubron, Ms Emma Ridley, Ms Gill Syres, Ms Belinda Howe, Ms Lisa Higgins, Ms Lorraine Little, Ms Louisa Lam, Ms Lynne Murray

Publications: see http://www.anzicrc.monash.org/staff.html

Student: Ms Lisa Higgins, Dr Daryl Jones, Ms Elizabeth Moore, Dr Ruwan Wijemunige

Contact Person: Siouxzy Morrison - siouxzy.morrision@monash.edu

http://www.anzicrc.monash.org/staff.html