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History
The Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG) was created
in 1989 to improve the care of critically ill patients through investigator-initiated
research, and to provide a national forum for continuing education
about research methods. The inaugural meeting of the CCCTG was an
open-invitation conference funded by the Medical Research Council
of Canada in Emerald Lake in September 1989 attended by approximately
25 people. Dr. Tom Todd became the first Chair and headed the group
from 1989 to 1996 after which Dr. Deborah Cook took over till 2004.
The first project to be taken on by the group was the Stress Ulcer
Prophylaxis Study and its first major publication “Risk factors
for gastrointestinal bleeding in critically ill patients. Canadian
Critical Care Trials Group” was published in the New England
Journal of Medicine in 1994.
In the spring of 2000, additional MRC funding was received for
a special pediatric CCCTG meeting in Montreal – an indication
of the growing number of multicentre pediatric ICU trials. In 2002,
Dr. Brent Winston started the Translational Biology subgroup of
the CCCTG to further develop the link between basic science and
clinical research.
Finally, in June 2004, Roxanne Ward founded the Canadian Critical
Care Research Coordinators Group which has already held several
highly successful workshops.
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