Collaborative quality improvement in the cardiac intensive care unit: development of the Paediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4)

• Published in: Cardiology in the young Vol. 25; no. 5; pp. 951 - 957
• Main Authors: Gaies, Michael, Cooper, David S., Tabbutt, Sarah, Schwartz, Steven M., Ghanayem, Nancy, Chanani, Nikhil K., Costello, John M., Thiagarajan, Ravi R., Laussen, Peter C., Shekerdemian, Lara S., Donohue, Janet E., Willis, Gina M., Gaynor, J. William, Jacobs, Jeffrey P., Ohye, Richard G., Charpie, John R., Pasquali, Sara K., Scheurer, Mark A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.06.2015
• Subjects: Cardiac Surgical Procedures - standards; Cooperative Behavior; Heart Defects, Congenital - surgery; Humans; Intensive Care Units - organization & administration; Original Articles; Pediatrics - standards; Quality Improvement - organization & administration; Registries; United States; United States; Critical care; cardiac surgery; quality improvement; paediatric

Despite many advances in recent years for patients with critical paediatric and congenital cardiac disease, significant variation in outcomes remains across hospitals. Collaborative quality improvement has enhanced the quality and value of health care across specialties, partly by determining the re...