Table 1.

Major planned sub studies under USCIITG-CIOS (Partial list)

Title	Description	Investigators
Systematic review of protocols	Systematic review of protocol efficacy for improving patient outcomes	Patil, Eberlein, Winters, Morris, Brown, Hirschburg, Prasad
ICU structure	Descriptive phenotype of USCIITGCIOS centers	Checkley, Sevransky, Gajic, Howell, Shahul
Race/ethnicity, processes and outcomes in the ICU	Analysis of the association between race or ethnicity and receipt of healthcare and associated outcomes, adjusting for confounders	Martin, Pietropaoli, Howell, Shahul, Talmor, Hunziker
Transfusion goals	Do we comply with transfusion protocols?	Murphy, Shahul
Epidemiology of FFP transfusion	Description of frequency and triggers for FFP transfusion	Netzer, Shahul
EMR and ICU	Is there a patient-level benefit to health information technology in the ICU?	Pickering, Howell, Talmor, Han,Shahul, Pickering, Hunziker
Cancer	Prevalence and outcomes	Eberlein, Pastores
Consultation	Epidemiology of consultative services in critically ill patients in the United States	Howell, Talmor, Goodspeed
Continuity of care	Does a change in resident or attending influence care delivery?	Siner, Gutteridge
Nutrition	Prevalence of adequate nutrition in ICU’s	Rice, Shahul
ALI/MODS simulation model	Validation of a multiscale simulation model of acute lung injury and multiorgan failure in the multicenter cohort of critically ill patients	Gajic, Pickering