Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG)

The Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG) was created in 1989 to improve the care of critically ill patients through investigator-initiated research, and to provide a national forum for continuing education about research methods.

The inaugural meeting of the CCCTG was an open-invitation conference funded by the Medical Research Council of Canada (MRC) in Emerald Lake in September 1989 attended by approximately 25 people. Dr. Tom Todd became the first Chair and headed the group from 1989 to 1996 after which Dr. Deborah Cook took over until 2004.

The first project to be taken on by the group was the Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis Study and its first major publication “Risk factors for gastrointestinal bleeding in critically ill patients. Canadian Critical Care Trials Group” was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1994.