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Editorial
. 2025 Oct 22;27(4):100138.
doi: 10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100138. eCollection 2025 Dec.

Redefining success: Incorporating long-term survival outcomes into routine benchmarking

Paul Secombe  1   2   3   4   5   6 , Edward Litton  1   2   7 , Shaila Chavan  1 , Jennifer Hogan  1   6 , Sue Huckson  1 , Tamishta Hensman  1   8   9 , Chong Tien Goh  1   10   11 , Craig Carr  1   12 , Jason McClure  1   2   6 , David Pilcher  1   2   6
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Editorial

Redefining success: Incorporating long-term survival outcomes into routine benchmarking

Paul Secombe et al. Crit Care Resusc. .
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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: Ed Litton and David Pilcher report financial support was provided by Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Foundation. If there are other authors, they declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Screenshot of the ANZICS CORE long-term survival report for “Oldtown Hospital ICU” showing a Kaplan–Meier plot of all patients admitted between January 2020 and December 2023, stratified by frailty status. Time commences at ICU admission. ANZICS CORE: Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society’s Centre for Outcome and Resource Evaluation; ICU: intensive care unit; PICU: paediatric intensive care unit.
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
ANZICS CORE long-term survival report for “Oldtown Hospital ICU” showing a Kaplan–Meier plot and survival table estimates for all ventilated patients (excluding cardiac surgery) admitted between January 2020 and December 2023. Time begins at ICU admission. ANZICS CORE: Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society’s Centre for Outcome and Resource Evaluation; ICU: intensive care unit.
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