Safety, quality & education

Sharing is caring: A systematic review of publicly available intensive care data sets

J Crit CarePublished Systematic review

Authors' conclusion

Each public ICU data set differs due to differences in medical practice, information technologies and approach to legal restrictions.

Study context

Population
Publicly available Intensive Care Unit (ICU) data sets of adult patients7 ICU databases
Outcome
Publicly available ICU databases
Methodological detailsqualitative synthesis
  • Qualitative synthesis

Pooled result

As reported in the abstract

Publications identified

882

Publicly available ICU databases included: AmsterdamUMCdb, eICU Collaborative Research Database (eICU-CRD), HiRID, MIMIC-IV, Northwestern ICU (NWICU), Salzburg Intensive Care database (SICdb), Zigong Fourth People's Hospital (ZFPH)

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Original publication

Sharing is caring: A systematic review of publicly available intensive care data sets. J Crit Care. Published 6 August 2025. doi:10.1016/j.jcrc.2025.155205

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