TABLE 1.

KEY CHARACTERISTICS TO PROVIDING A FRAMEWORK IN CRITICAL CARE RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Characteristic	Description
Physical location of care delivery	Community (outside hospital); emergency department/trauma bay; operating room; PACU; ICU (medical, surgical, pediatric, neonatal, neurological; cardiac; cardiac surgical; mixed); step-down unit; ward
Disease stage	Initial stabilization/resuscitation; hyper-inflammatory states; acute organ dysfunction; chronic stable critical illness; end of life/survivorship
Key care provider or investigator	Physicians; nurses; pharmacists; respiratory therapists; dieticians; basic/bench/translational/clinical scientists; educators

Definition of abbreviations: ICU = intensive care unit; PACU = postanesthesia care unit.