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Quality Indicators for Paediatric ICUs

A review

The lecture duration is 20min.

0.5 CPD Points, 0.5 CEUs, 0.5 CME credits approval pending.
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Maria del Pilar Arias López
Specialist in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine, Hospital de Niños Ricardo Gutierrez, Argentina
Lecture Summary

Quality indicators are essential tools to guide quality improvement efforts in pediatric intensive care units. These metrics allow identifying areas in need of improvement in order to plan preventive and corrective actions. PICU managers should use quality indicators and their standard values as a guide to set their units’ goals and design their improvement projects Health organizations can use indicators as a tool for external benchmarking and internal tracking of improvements. By means of measurement, publication, and recognition, such metrics can help reduce the variability of healthcare quality.

Target Audience

Critical Care Doctors
Experienced Critical Care Nurses

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, you should be able to:

  • Recognise the importance of using quality indicators for PICU management.
  • Describe how to select an appropriate set of indicators for a PICU according to its characteristics and location
  • Define the different types of indicators available and their attributes

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