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Quality Indicators Compliance Survey in Indian Intensive Care Units

CONTEXT: The quality of health care and outcomes of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) have been a major subject of discussion in the past decade. Quality indicators in ICUs maintain an order of uniformity and standard care of delivery across ICUs. AIMS: In this study, we tried to analyze the percentage comp...

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Autores principales: Kartik, Munta, Gopal, Palepu B. N., Amte, Rahul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5416784/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28515601
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_164_15
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Amte, Rahul
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description CONTEXT: The quality of health care and outcomes of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) have been a major subject of discussion in the past decade. Quality indicators in ICUs maintain an order of uniformity and standard care of delivery across ICUs. AIMS: In this study, we tried to analyze the percentage compliance of quality indicators in ICU across our country. METHODS: Four hundred complete questionnaire forms were collected in two stages by means of conducting a survey and through email responses to the survey questionnaire. Data were tabulated and evaluated in percentage responses. RESULTS: Monitoring of infection control measures such as hand hygiene (77%), monitoring of ICU-acquired infections (>75%), and quality and policy measures (>70%) were promising. Improvements are required in following end-of-life pathways (52%) and staffing patterns in ICU. ICU discharge timings (41%), standardized mortality ratio monitoring (39%), and multidisciplinary rounds (58%) in ICUs are few areas we need to develop further. CONCLUSION: The future of critical care looks promising with growing number of trained intensivists and hospitals functioning with an average ICU bed strength of 30–40. Such surveys need to be performed regularly to improve the patient care and safety across ICUs.
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spelling pubmed-54167842017-05-17 Quality Indicators Compliance Survey in Indian Intensive Care Units Kartik, Munta Gopal, Palepu B. N. Amte, Rahul Indian J Crit Care Med Research Article CONTEXT: The quality of health care and outcomes of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) have been a major subject of discussion in the past decade. Quality indicators in ICUs maintain an order of uniformity and standard care of delivery across ICUs. AIMS: In this study, we tried to analyze the percentage compliance of quality indicators in ICU across our country. METHODS: Four hundred complete questionnaire forms were collected in two stages by means of conducting a survey and through email responses to the survey questionnaire. Data were tabulated and evaluated in percentage responses. RESULTS: Monitoring of infection control measures such as hand hygiene (77%), monitoring of ICU-acquired infections (>75%), and quality and policy measures (>70%) were promising. Improvements are required in following end-of-life pathways (52%) and staffing patterns in ICU. ICU discharge timings (41%), standardized mortality ratio monitoring (39%), and multidisciplinary rounds (58%) in ICUs are few areas we need to develop further. CONCLUSION: The future of critical care looks promising with growing number of trained intensivists and hospitals functioning with an average ICU bed strength of 30–40. Such surveys need to be performed regularly to improve the patient care and safety across ICUs. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5416784/ /pubmed/28515601 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_164_15 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5416784/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28515601
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_164_15
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