| Creating A Common Pediatric Critical Care Database - A Collaboration Between the VPICU and NACHRI
Randall Wetzel, Steve Pon, Greg Frongello, Tom Rice. The Laura P. And Leland K. Whittier Virtual Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and The National Association of Childrens Hospitals and Related Institutions.
Published in: Clinical Intensive Care, Vol.10(4),147,1999.
After decades of progress in pediatric critical care, wide variability remains in the quality and style of practice. The isolated and urgent nature of critical care combined with small numbers of patients with any particular illness in any given PICU, make it difficult to critically analyze the practice of critical care. Data sharing among centers or the use of patient level data for decision support rarely occurs. Many PICUs have non-integrated, non-networked data sets from individual bedsides recorded by hand. This immense database is contained within patient charts, archived in medical records and often never seen again. Sophisticated data collection and informatics support is currently inadequate and expensive.
To address these challenges, the VPICU and NACHRI have formed a partnership to bring complementary expertise and perspective to develop and widely distribute data collecting and management software to support pediatric critical care practices. This partnership has developed PC-based software that contains key patient-level indicators to facilitate analysis of the critical care delivery patterns of patients served by pediatric intensive care units. The software that will be presented meets the following specifications:
PICU Performance System Software - Major Design Features:
- Access 97 platform for use on Pentium PCs. Open architecture facilitating modular integration.
- Quick and easy data submission and retrieval through point and click menus.
- Ability to compare performance relative to the individual PICU and national and international PICU data.
- Contents: Patient Demographics, Diagnoses, Length of Stay, Outcomes, Severity Scoring, Interventions, Quality Improvement.
- Executive-level and management-level reports.
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