Critical care database comprising patients with infection at Zigong Fourth People's Hospital

Patients treated in the intensive care unit (ICU) are closely monitored and
receive intensive treatment. Such aggressive monitoring and treatment will
generate high-granularity data from both electronic healthcare records and
nursing chart. These data not only provide infrastructure for daily clinical
practice, but also can help to inform clinical researches. It is technically
challenging to integrate and cleanse medical data from a variety of sources.
Although there are several open access critical care databases from western
countries, there is a lack of this kind of database for Chinese adult
patients. We established a critical care database involving patients with
infection. A large proportion of these patients have sepsis and/or septic
shock. High-granularity data comprising laboratory findings, baseline
characteristics, medications, ICD code, nursing charts and follow-up results
were integrated to generate a comprehensive database. The database can be
utilized for a variety of clinical studies.