Research Grants and Contract Activity: Adult Division
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Project Title:
Management of Anemia in Critical Care (MACC II)

Funding Agency:
Amgen

Total Project Period:
Oct 20, 2004 - Nov 30, 2005

Principal Investigator:
Derek Angus, MD

Co-Investigators:
Gilles Clermont, MD; Mitchell Fink, MD
           
Project Summary:
The observational cohort study completed as Phase I of MACC used information from several computerized databases grouped under the acronym (HiDenIC) High Density ICU database).  The database contains detailed physiologic data on all patients admitted to the ICU within UPMC-Presbyterian from June 30, 2000 to July 1, 2001.  Data is available for  a total of 6,007 patients and will be used to generate manuscripts on important findings relevant to the analysis of this dataset.