Free Access

The eICU Collaborative Research Database (eICU-CRD) is a large multi-center intensive care unit database from Philips Healthcare's eICU telehealth program, in partnership with MIT Laboratory for Computational Physiology. Contains de-identified data for over 200,000 admissions from 139,000 unique patients across 335 ICU units at 208 US hospitals (2014-2015). Includes: demographics, vital signs, care plan documentation, severity of illness measures (APACHE IV), diagnoses (3,933 unique active problems), laboratory measurements (158 lab types), medications, continuous infusions, intake/output, microbiology, nurse charting, and structured notes. Data access follows the same process as MIMIC: free of charge, requires PhysioNet credentialed access (CITI Data or Specimens Only Research course + Data Use Agreement). Complements MIMIC-IV (single-center, Boston) with multi-center US coverage for external validation and generalizability of ICU ML models.

eICU, critical care, ICU, multicenter, Philips, PhysioNet, vital signs, severity of illness

Critical care patients are monitored closely through the course of their illness. Philips Healthcare has developed a telehealth system, the eICU Program, which leverages these data to support management of critically ill patients. Here we describe the eICU Collaborative Research Database, a multi-center intensive care unit (ICU) database with high granularity data for over 200,000 admissions to ICUs monitored by eICU Programs across the United States.