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About Appropriate Intensive Care

We improve intensive care by assessing its cost-effectiveness, developing prediction models for treatment decisions, addressing ethical issues in using (macroeconomic) data in clinical practice, and promoting personalized, patient-centered care.

Research group leader

dr. Marieke Zegers MSc

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Aims

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Aims

We aim to:

Evaluate the effectiveness of intensive care treatment on patient outcomes (mortality, morbidity and quality of life), and the cost-effectiveness of intensive care;
Develop prediction models that support patients, relatives and healthcare professionals in treatment decisions;
Gain insight into the (ethical) challenges of implementing macroeconomic data in national policy and clinical decision-making;
Provide care that is tailored to the personal needs and experienced health problems;
Support policy makers in making decisions about the sustainability of intensive care based on valid data.

Achievements

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Achievements

We set up the MONITOR-IC (www.monitor-ic.nl): a worldwide unique database including outcome, clinical and costs data from more than 20,000 former ICU patients across multiple Dutch ICUs. It forms the foundation for the research conducted by the research group. The MONITOR-IC data is input for several guidelines supporting clinicans in treatment decisions, and is input for policy making on sustainable health care. More than € 5 million in grant funding was secured for research projects.Particular achievement is the development and graduation of several PhD, MSc and BSc students within the research group.
Het Radboudumc startte samen met het UMC Groningen en Rijnstate het initiatief Project ZIRE. In 2017 is Project ZIRE gestart om de focus te verleggen van het registreren van alledaagse handelingen (bijvoorbeeld uitgevoerde pijnmetingen) naar registratie van patiëntuitkomsten en -ervaringen. Hiermee maken we zorgverleners weer eigenaar van de kwaliteit van zorg door het werken met een kernset van zinvolle indicatoren en het efficiënter inrichten van het registratieproces. Dat leidt tot meer werkplezier bij artsen en verpleegkundigen, minder registratielast en gelijke of betere kwaliteit van zorg.

Lees meer informatie op Zinvolle registratie (ZIRE) - Radboudumc.