Improving critical care through collaborative research:

The Scottish Critical Care Trials Group was established in 2003. The group evolved from groups of intensive care professionals interested in collaborating to carry out high quality clinical research into critical illness.

Our mission is to improve the care of the critically ill through high quality clinical research. To this end our objectives are:

General

• To promote and support high quality research in to critical care in Scotland
• To work under the auspices of the Scottish Intensive Care Society (SICS) and in collaboration with the SICS Audit Group (SICSAG), and the SICS evidence-based medicine group
• To collaborate with other expert groups in carrying out high quality critical care research in Scotland
• To ensure that research is carried out in a fair and inclusive manner in the critical care community of NHS Scotland
• To ensure that relevant health care workers are kept well informed about critical care research in Scotland
• To ensure that all research meets research governance requirements


Specific

• To identify important questions relating to critical care in Scotland
• To contribute to project development, trial design and execution
• To design and execute high quality randomised trials
• To support other research on different levels of scale and complexity
• To achieve funding for critical care research in Scotland, specifically by coordinating and managing grant applications for major projects
• To coordinate trials in the Scottish ICU patient base
• To ensure equity between different projects