Help facilitate multicenter, multiprofessional critical care research and improve patient outcomes.
Discovery is the research arm of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), which fosters multiprofessional, multicenter collaborative research to improve outcomes for critically ill and injured patients and seeks to incorporate findings into practice using SCCM’s broad base of programs.
Advance and accelerate high-quality, data-driven critical care research that improves the care and outcomes of critically ill and injured patients nationally and internationally by convening multidisciplinary teams, providing robust research infrastructure, and fostering open collaboration.
Foster a national and international community with access to high-value data, state-of-the-art tools, and inclusive mentorship to empower every critical care investigator to turn ideas into impact.
A Framework and Method for Measuring the Implementation of Data Science in Critical Care
Woznica D, Al-Hakim T, Kumar VK, et al. A framework and method for measuring the implementation of data science in critical care. Crit Care Explor. 2026 Feb;8(2):e1372. doi:10.1097/CCE.0000000000001372.
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Extending the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) Common Data Model for Critical Care Medicine: A Framework for Standardizing Complex ICU Data Using the Society of Critical Care Medicine's Critical Care Data Dictionary (C2D2)
Adams MCB, Hurley RW, Bartels K, et al. Extending the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) Common Data Model for critical care medicine: a framework for standardizing complex ICU data using the Society of Critical Care Medicine's Critical Care Data Dictionary (C2D2). Crit Care Med. 2026 Feb 1;54(2):270-279. doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000006969.
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Prevalence of Sepsis as Defined by Phoenix Sepsis Definition Among Children With COVID-19
Tripathi S, McGarvey J, Montgomery V, et al. Prevalence of sepsis as defined by Phoenix Sepsis Definition among children with COVID-19. Hosp Pediatr. 2025 Jul 1;15(7):554-562. doi:10.1542/hpeds.2024-008161.
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The Association Between Early Corticosteroid Use and the Risk of Secondary Infections in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19: A Double-Edged Sword.
Bansal V, Jain NK, Lal A, et al; Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Discovery Viral Infection and Respiratory Illness Universal Study (VIRUS): COVID-19 Registry Investigator Group. The association between early corticosteroid use and the risk of secondary infections in hospitalized patients with COVID-19: a double-edged sword. Results from the international SCCM Discovery Viral Infection and Respiratory Illness Universal Study (VIRUS) COVID-19 Registry. Front Med (Lausanne). 2025 Feb 14;12:1466346. doi:10.3389/fmed.2025.1466346.
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Wrangling Real-World Data: Optimizing Clinical Research Through Factor Selection with LASSO Regression
Howard KA, Anderson W, Podichetty JT, et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2025;22(4):464.
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