The challenge of local consent requirements for global critical care databases.

The article focuses on the global critical care databases. Topics include with several commercial and non-commercial intensive care unit (ICU) databases having been developed in a number of countries; mentions in an era of increasing global collaborative health research efforts, such variations in data consent requirements are problematic; and also mentions the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) address the current heterogeneity of data protection within the european union (EU).