Adult Patient Database (APD)

The Adult Patient Database (APD), now contains data from over 900,000 patient episodes, one of the largest single datasets on intensive care in the world.  The resource dataset contains detailed information on all intensive care units for a 10 year period.  As well as benchmarking performance in intensive care, these datasets also provide an invaluable resource for the intensive care community and other healthcare sectors.  It enables resource planning to assist in daily activities, research and service delivery.  Examples include local hospital staffing and resource planning, state-wide infrastructure planning, influenza pandemic planning and biosecurity and terrorism planning.

For further information regarding the variables collected by the APD please see the AORTIC Software - Tools for Collection page on this website.

Information is reported back to ICUs contributing to the APD via on-line reporting tools.  These tools are the ANZICS CORE Web portal and Web Report Studio.  Further information regarding reporting of APD information to units can be found on the APD Reports page of this website.

If you would like to start contributing to the APD, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for a free information pack and copy of our AORTIC software.

Publications & Journals

To access a range of publications developed using data from the ANZICS CORE databases, please refer to the Scientific Publications page of this website.

To access a range of websites and journals related to intensive care, please refer to the Publications & Resources page of this website.

Accessing Information

ANZICS CORE provides assistance for ANZICS members, clinicians and researchers to access information held on the database for approved purposes upon request. Please refer to the CORE Information Request Applications page to download an Information Request form.