Surveys

Survey Submission Guidelines

• Approved surveys are shared as links on this webpage or electronically as part of established FICM communication channels – only apply if your project is using an online survey tool
• The scheduling of all survey distribution and the inclusion of specific surveys is at the FICM's discretion
• Please be aware that the FICM also runs its own surveys of members and your project may clash with ongoing FICM work
• There may also be a number of surveys awaiting distribution and your project timescales may not line up with FICM capacity
• The FICM will not bulk email its members with a message specific to your survey, nor will it coordinate physical mail-outs of survey materials
• Applicants with fixed data collection time-frames should plan several weeks’ lead-in time for any submission to accommodate review by FICM clinical leads, plus any changes required by the reviewers to the survey contents
• Pleaese return completed Survey Application Forms to contact@ficm.ac.uk.

Please Note

Whilst the FICM has agreed to circulate the links for these surveys for the interest of its members, unless otherwise noted, FICM is not part of the survey teams nor official sponsors of any of these research projects. 

Any queries related to these surveys should be directed to the survey team, not FICM.

Current External Surveys

Percutaneous tracheostomy insertion – establishing practice variability across the UK

Despite being a commonly performed procedure in the critical care environment, there is little data evidencing how percutaneous tracheostomy procedures are performed in the UK. Further, it is unclear how current practice follows the joint bodies (FICM, NTSP, ICS) guidance ‘Guidance For: Tracheostomy Care’.

This survey, being undertaken by staff at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, looks to establish routine practice among consultants (or equivalent) in the pre-procedural, procedural and post-procedural stages of percutaneous tracheostomy insertion. It is intended that the data generated from this survey will form part of a larger body of prospective observational work.

• Closing date: 31 January 2025

https://forms.gle/a8f5bQPjG5G9sBX99

Corticosteroids, precision medicine and sepsis

In this survey, researchers at Queen's University Belfast are seeking to explore current clinical practice in sepsis, and how emerging biological phenotypes of sepsis may influence clinical practice. The survey is relevant to intensivists and wider FICM members who treat patients with sepsis. As knowledge of biological phenotypes advances, researchers are keen to explore how this understanding affects clinician judgement around existing and future sepsis therapies.
Finally, FICM member responses would be highly valuable as this survey may be used to inform the design of future clinical trials. Having views representative of UK clinical practice would help in the design of a trial, with the aim of making it clinically relevant to current NHS care.

• Closing date: 31 March 2025

https://www.redcap.qub.ac.uk/redcap/surveys/?s=X4W4MNKECFL38X7T
 

ICU Staff Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes Towards Working with Patients with Mental Illness

We are a group of NHS clinicians and academics in Bath hoping to improve training about and care for those with mental health issues in acute hospital intensive care settings.

We are therefore asking doctors and nurses who work/have worked in ICU to complete a short online questionnaire. This explores their attitudes, knowledge and skills related to working with patients with mental illness in ICU.

This survey is part of a wider project that includes qualitative interviews with doctors and nurses on their experiences.

• Closing Date: 30 May 2025

Working with Mental Illness in the ICU | QuestionPro Survey

Care of Non-tunnelled Central Venous Catheters in United Kingdom Critical Care Units

Staff at the University of Aberdeen are conducting a research study into the care of central lines/CVCs and inviting participants to join a focus group to discuss how they approach this procedure. The principles of ongoing care for CVCs mainly revolve around the prevention of infection and maintaining patency of the line in order to avoid further exposure to the risks associated with CVC insertion to replace an infected or blocked line. There is no unified approach on how to achieve these goals. This project seeks to describe current practice in UK critical care units in relation to CVC care to inform the direction of future research.

• Closing date: open ended

https://redcap.abdn.ac.uk/surveys/?s=DLFEMY44RFEXJNDM