Development of a quality indicator set to measure and improve quality of ICU care for patients with traumatic brain injury

JA Huijben, EJA Wiegers, NF de Keizer, AIR Maas… - Critical Care, 2019 - Springer
… and nurses) primary responsible for ICU care, (2) physicians from other specialties than
intensive care medicine who are regularly involved in the care of patients with TBI at the ICU, …

Association between adherence to quality indicators and 7-day in-hospital mortality after acute ischemic stroke

…, German Stroke Register Study Group (ADSR) - Stroke, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
… Thus, in contrast to these previous studies, we investigate the performance of individual
acute care hospitals using a comprehensive approach combing all predefined evidence-based …

… Society of Cardiology quality indicators for the care and outcomes of adults with heart failure. Developed by the Working Group for Heart Failure Quality Indicators in …

S Aktaa, M Polovina, G Rosano, A Abdin… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… which may identify areas for quality improvement in HF care. Quality indicators (QIs) are
increasingly … with, guideline-recommended therapy. Given that they relate to discrete aspects of …

Characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 patients during B. 1.1. 529 (Omicron) dominance compared to B. 1.617. 2 (Delta) in 89 German hospitals

J Leiner, V Pellissier, S Hohenstein, S König… - BMC Infectious …, 2022 - Springer
… Comparing Delta and Omicron periods, patients were at significantly lower risk for intensive
care treatment (adjusted odds ratio 0.72 [0.57–0.91]; p = 0.005), mechanical ventilation (…

A systematic review and pooled prevalence of delirium in critically ill children

D Semple, MM Howlett, JD Strawbridge… - … Care Medicine, 2022 - journals.lww.com
… Studies were included where the following eligibility criteria were met: study design aimed
to estimate pediatric delirium prevalence arising from treatment in the intensive care setting, …

Intracranial pressure: current perspectives on physiology and monitoring

GWJ Hawryluk, G Citerio, P Hutchinson, A Kolias… - … care medicine, 2022 - Springer
… pressure: current perspectives on physiology and monitoring | Intensive Care Medicine
ICP measurement remains integral to the intensive care of severe brain pathologies and shows …

Clustering identifies endotypes of traumatic brain injury in an intensive care cohort: a CENTER-TBI study

CAI Åkerlund, A Holst, N Stocchetti, EW Steyerberg… - Critical care, 2022 - Springer
… to identify subgroups of TBI patients admitted to the intensive care unit in the CENTER-TBI
dataset (N = 1,728). A cluster similarity index was used for robust determination of optimal …

… collaboration between ICU physicians, staff nurses, and hospital pharmacists optimizes antimicrobial treatment and improves quality of care and economic outcome

S Schmid, S Schlosser, K Gülow, V Pavel, M Müller… - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
… Antibiotic resistance is of particular relevance for intensive care medicine, as ICU physicians
worldwide are facing … Our MICU at a German university medical center is specialized in the …

Pressure injury prevalence and risk factors in Chinese adult intensive care units: A multi‐centre prospective point prevalence study

, … Society of Intensive Care Medicine  … - International Wound …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… Hospital-acquired PIs have been considered as a sensitive nursing quality indicator in
hospitals since 2008. It has been a standard reporting item on the country's hospital adverse …

What makes a good quality indicator set? A systematic review of criteria

L Schang, I Blotenberg, D Boywitt - … for quality in health care, 2021 - academic.oup.com
care quality literature address this criterion. Second, to obtain a complete inventory of criteria,
we examine what additional criteria of quality indicator … English- or German-language, peer-…