The impact of critical care outreach: is there one?

doi:10.1186/cc6179

Critical Care
Volume 11
Issue 6

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The impact of critical care outreach: is there one?

Brian H Cuthbertson

Clinical Senior Lecturer in Critical Care and Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Health Services Research Unit, Health Sciences Building, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK

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Critical Care 2007, 11:179doi:10.1186/cc6179


Published:	30 November 2007

See related research by Gao et al., http://ccforum.com/content/11/5/R113

Abstract

An evaluation of critical care outreach services was published in the previous issue of Critical Care that fails to demonstrate any important outcome benefit associated with these services. It is now time to ask some difficult questions about the future of outreach, including whether the lack of evidence should lead to disinvest-ment in such services.