Critical care research journals for acute clinical decisions

Critical and acute care teams make decisions in fast‑moving, high‑stakes environments where patients transition quickly from emergency to ICU, surgery, and recovery. In these moments, access to trusted, consistent evidence is essential.

The Ovid® Critical & Acute Care Collection brings together authoritative journals across emergency, critical care, perioperative medicine, and recovery — creating a unified evidence foundation that supports confident, defensible clinical decision-making and patient care.

Coverage spans the full spectrum of critical and acute care, including emergency medicine, critical care, perioperative care, trauma, sepsis, and specialty acute populations.

Evidence is aligned to real clinical workflows, not isolated departments or specialties.

A shared research infrastructure supports alignment across clinicians, care settings, and transitions of care.

Peer‑reviewed, traceable knowledge clinicians and institutions can rely on when decisions are reviewed.

Critical & Acute Care Collection

Cover image of the Critical Care Medicine journal, Volume 52, Number 5, May 2024, the official journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, published by Wolters Kluwer. Critical Care Medicine journal cover, May 2024, Volume 52, Number 5.
Cover image of the Anesthesiology journal, Volume 140, Number 6, June 2024, the official journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
Cover image of the European Journal of Anaesthesiology, Volume 41, Number 8, August 2024, published by the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care.
Cover image of the PAIN journal, Volume 165, Number 9, September 2024, the journal of the International Association for the Study of Pain.
Ovid’s Critical & Acute Care Collection equips emergency clinicians, intensivists, and perioperative teams with a complete, always current body of evidence. Featuring leading journals such as Critical Care Medicine, Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, and Anesthesiology, your library becomes a clinical accelerator — supporting rapid, high stakes decisions and coordinated care across emergency, ICU, and recovery settings.
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Key features

  • Trusted knowledge

    Leading publishers provide expert-curated, peer-reviewed content, curated to meet the highest standards of quality and reliability in critical care medicine. 95% of customers say they rely on Ovid medical journals for rigorous research that supports critical care research.

  • Consistency

    Consistent coverage across the ICU care pathway means you always keep the best-informed decision within reach for every patient.

    "It saves our health system millions of dollars in not harming patients, let alone misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatments.“
    - Clinical Information Platform Manager

  • Traceability

    Clear transparency and traceability mean teams can evaluate, defend, and trust decisions in high-stakes critical care environments.

    “You know that what's hosted on Ovid is a reliable entity. You know that the journals that are on Ovid are all reputable journals.”
    - Clinician

  • Quality

    Specialty coverage of critical care nursing and medicine by Ovid provides your organization with a standard that signals your quality and reputation.

     

    “By using Ovid, I have the ability to validate content and ideas that are being presented, and results that are being reported through journal articles.”
    – Librarian

     

  • Critical impact

    This targeted coverage shapes clinical practice standards, informs ICU policy, improves patient outcomes at scale, and contributes to saving lives and advancing critical care knowledge.

    "Loss of Ovid would directly impact the quality of our research and the quality of our patient care." - Librarian

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Coverage designed around how care is delivered

The Critical & Acute Care Collection is curated to support the full acute care pathway, providing continuity of evidence from the point of emergency through intensive care, procedures, and recovery.

Connect with an Ovid specialist to discuss your goals, explore relevant resources, and see how Ovid can support your institution’s research and education priorities.

“Every time somebody uses Ovid, it's influencing a clinical decision — that's constant, every day, and massively important.” - Director of Library

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