Creating a High-Frequency Electronic Database in the PICU: The Perpetual Patient.

Objective: Our objective was to construct a prospective high-quality and high-frequency database combining patient therapeutics and clinical variables in real time, automatically fed by the information system and network architecture available through fully electronic charting in our PICU. The purpose of this article is to describe the data acquisition process from bedside to the research electronic database.

Design: Descriptive report and analysis of a prospective database.