Acute & Intensive Care Outcomes Research Network (AICORN)
AICORN is a multidisciplinary research group that seeks to further our understanding of health care delivery and identify ways to optimize care and outcomes. Projects involve large database analyses focused on clinical epidemiology and health services research related to acute and intensive care. AICORN is based at the Department of Critical Care Medicine at Sunnybrook.
Focus Areas:
- Opioid prescribing before and after critical illness (CIHR funded)
- Opioid prescribing after surgery (NIH funded, in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania)
- Sedative prescribing after critical illness (CIHR funded)
- Rehospitalizations after critical illness (CIHR funded)
- End-of-life care in Canada (TVN grant)
- Care and outcomes for hematologic malignancy patients with critical illness
- Care of elderly trauma patients
- Triage practices for trauma patients
- Trends over time in health care utilization