TPCH leads world’s largest COVID dashboard to shape future pandemic preparedness

Pictured (L-R) COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium Co-Founders Dr Jacky Suen, A/Prof Gianluigi Li Bassi and Prof John Fraser AO, with COVID Critical and CCRG Manager Hannah Marrinan.

TPCH’s Critical Care Research Group (CCRG) has developed the COVID Critical Dashboard, a world-first tool designed to support in future epidemics and critical care scenarios.

At the beginning of the pandemic, there was a lack of data that could be used to guide the management of critically ill patients with COVID-19. In response, CCRG established the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium, an international research and data-sharing collaborative, to harness the cumulative experience of ICUS worldwide.

Now the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium has relaunched the COVID Dashboard, a tool powered by data from over 400 hospitals across 64 countries gathered during the pandemic. Designed to augment clinical acumen and experience, researchers worldwide now have free access to this data which offers insights into how patients were cared for during the pandemic.

Hannah Marrinan, Manager of the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium and CCRG, said: “At the height of the pandemic, doctors and nurses from over 60 countries gave us their time and energy to capture the data that now powers the Dashboard – we are indebted to each and every one of them for seeing the value in what we were trying to do.”

“COVID might be behind us, but this tool will evolve and become a platform ready to be used for other epidemics and times where the medical community needs to gather and synthesise large volumes of real-world data in real time.”

The Dashboard is live and free for any researcher to access, and the data has already been published in over 35 manuscripts, including seminal papers on topics ranging from administering ECMO to the allocation of resources to healthcare disparities across race and ethnicity.

This tool will continue to evolve as a platform for future epidemics and critical care scenarios and will become an important tool for pandemic preparedness.

Start exploring today and be part of this global research initiative. Visit ccrg.org.au/news/covid-critical-access for more information.