The evolution of intensive care unit performance assessment

TY - JOUR

T1 - The evolution of intensive care unit performance assessment

AU - Terblanche, M

AU - Adhikari, NKJ

PY - 2006/3

Y1 - 2006/3

N2 - Intensive care units (ICUs) share the problems experienced by the health care system at large. Various approaches to define and manage the quality of care patients receive in the ICU have been proposed. Performance measurement involves the collection of data to evaluate an ICU's performance against itself (over time), other ICUs, or other appropriate benchmarks. Successful performance assessment requires the quantification of relevant indexes of performance. Although these indexes are increasingly being developed, it will be some time before widely recognized, validated systems are available.

AB - Intensive care units (ICUs) share the problems experienced by the health care system at large. Various approaches to define and manage the quality of care patients receive in the ICU have been proposed. Performance measurement involves the collection of data to evaluate an ICU's performance against itself (over time), other ICUs, or other appropriate benchmarks. Successful performance assessment requires the quantification of relevant indexes of performance. Although these indexes are increasingly being developed, it will be some time before widely recognized, validated systems are available.

KW - ICU

KW - health care system

KW - performance

KW - ACUTE PHYSIOLOGY SCORE

KW - III PROGNOSTIC SYSTEM

KW - ICU PATIENTS

KW - APACHE

KW - SEVERITY

KW - PREDICTION

KW - MORTALITY

KW - ADMISSION

KW - AMERICAN

KW - MIX

U2 - 10.1016/j.jcrc.2005.12.003

DO - 10.1016/j.jcrc.2005.12.003

M3 - Article

SN - 0883-9441

VL - 21

SP - 19

EP - 22

JO - Journal of Critical Care

JF - Journal of Critical Care

IS - 1

ER -