Term: Critical Care / Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Data

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Glossary Definition

Last Updated: 2019-02-01

Definition:

NOTE: the Critical Care / Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Data has been updated in the Repository and this database is now considered inactive. For more up-to-date information on the current Critical Care and Medicine data in the Repository, see the Critical Care and Medicine Data glossary term.

The Critical Care / Intensive Care Unit (ICU) data contains episode information for critically ill individuals admitted to any of the adult ICUs in six Winnipeg hospitals. The types of ICUs include:

• Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU),
  
• Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU),
  
• Intermediate Intensive Care Unit (IICU),
  
• Coronary Intensive Care Unit (CICU), and
  
• Critical Care Unit (CCU).

Data collected for each episode of care includes: patient demographics; diagnoses, complications and comorbidities; acuity scores; lab test results; and therapeutic interventions.

NOTE: In MCHP research, the Critical Care / Intensive Care Unit (ICU) data has also been referred to as the Winnipeg ICU Database (WICUDB).

For more information on the inactive Critical Care / Intensive Care Unit (ICU) data, see the:

• MCHP Metadata Repository - Critical Care / Intensive Care Unit - [Internal Access Only] - for technical and programming related information, including an Overview, Data Model, Data Quality, Data Dictionary, Documents and Reports, and Blog.

Related concepts 

• Acute Physiology Score (APS)
• Episodes of Care: Methodology of Creating Hospital and ICU (Critical Illness) Episodes
• Identifying Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Episodes in the Hospital Abstracts Data
• Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Days
• Record Linkage in Manitoba

Related terms 

• Critical Care and Medicine (CCMED) Data
• Frequency of ICU (Intensive Care Unit) Use
• Inactive Repository Data
• Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
• Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Days
• Intermediate ICU (IICU)
• Medicine Data
• Winnipeg ICU Database (WICUDB)

Links 

• MCHP Data Repository - Critical Care and Medicine Data Description
• WRHA / Shared Health Critical Care Web Site

References 

• Garland A, Fransoo R, Olafson K, Ramsey C, Yogendran M, Chateau D, McGowan K. The Epidemiology and Outcomes of Critical Illness in Manitoba. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2012. [Report] [Summary] (View)