Objectives: To estimate federal dollars spent on critical care research, the cost of providing
critical care, and to determine whether the percentage of federal research dollars spent on
critical care research is commensurate with the financial burden of critical care. Design and
Data Sources: The National Institutes of Health Computer Retrieval of Information on
Scientific Projects database was queried to identify funded grants whose title or abstract
contained a key word potentially related to critical care. Each grant identified was analyzed …