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Defining standards and metrics in the ICU
James Ramsay MD
UCSF
Medical Director, CT ICU, Moffitt Hospital
“A standard of care is a medical… treatment guideline, and can be general or specific. It specifies appropriate treatment based on scientific evidence and collaboration between medical… professionals involved in the treatment of a given condition.”
“Standards”
• Practice Advisories
• Guidelines
• Statements
• Bundles
• Policies
Collections of people (“experts”)getting together and making recommendations based on available evidence and expert opinion
Who defines the “standards?”
• Government
– CDC, other regulatory agencies
• Societies
– Professional Societies like AHA, SCCM
• Institutions
– Health Care Systems/consortiums
• Unit-based committees
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28 page module
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American Heart Association
Standards (or guidelines, or …)
• Are based on “best evidence” to date
• Evolve over time
• Are created in order to guide practice to the best outcomes for the patient
• IOM 2001: “safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, equitable”
• As they are created by consensus they threaten the autonomy of individual practice
2008
Nash and Quigley 2008
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Physicians need to:
• Embrace evidence based medicine
– AKA standards, guidelines….
• Strive for improvement = “CQI”
• Endorse transparency in physician performance
– Accurate reporting of outcomes
– Disclosure of errors
Nash and Quigley 2008
Practicing according to standards is becoming mandatory because of
value
Value = Outcome Cost
Institutions, hospitals and clinical units not providing value are destined to be overtaken by those that do
“pay for performance”
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Critical Care Units and Value
• Critical Care represents 11% of health care spending
• Critical Care is associated with high rates of adverse events (iatrogenic and health-care related)
• Critical Care inconsistently delivers evidence-based practices
Developing an ICU value measurement process (Murphy et al 2015)
• Engage a multidisciplinary team
• Identify target areas
• Select an appropriate metric
• Acquire the necessary data
• Analyse and disseminate the findings
Identifying target areas
• Choose areas with greatest “opportunity for improvement”
• Consider potential for staff engagement
• Consider ability to measure
• Consider ability to effect change
• Evaluate structures and processes to identify where to direct improvement efforts
Murphy et al 2015
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Acquire the data and determine how best to present/disseminate
Displaying data to staff encourages compliance with guidelines
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Murphy et al 2015
Quality and value metrics: following the “standards”
• Becoming a requirement in the current healthcare environment
• Failure to participate will leave you in the dust
• Release yourself from the hold of autonomy
• Learn and adopt the “standards” relevant to your practice, and stay tuned
• Identify, obtain, and evaluate relevant metrics in order to develop high quality, high value care