The German quality indicators in intensive care medicine 2013 – second edition

GMS German Medical Science — an Interdisciplinary Journal

Claudia Spies⁴  Christian Waydhas^1,10  Ines Chop⁶  Norbert Weiler³  Hanswerner Bause¹  Clemens Greim⁸  Elke Muhl⁵  Rolf Dubb⁹  Arnold Kaltwasser⁹  Frank Bloos^1,11  Gernot Marx⁷  Alexander Brinkmann²  Maria Deja⁴  Oliver Kumpf⁴  Jan-Peter Braun⁴ 

[1] Quality Committee of the State Chamber of physicians Hamburg, previous Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Asklepiosklinikum Altona, Hamburg, Germany;Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Klinikum Heidenheim, Germany;Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center SchleswigHolstein, Campus Kiel, Germany;Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Charité Mitte and Campus VirchowKlinikum, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany;Department of Surgery, Medical University of Schleswig Holstein, Luebeck, Germany;German Medical Association, Berlin, Germany;Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Universitätsklinikum RTWH Aachen, Germany;Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Klinikum Fulda, Germany;German Society of Special Nursing (DGF), Berlin, Germany;Department of Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Essen, Germany;Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

关键词: peer review;    quality indicators;    intensive care medicine;    quality management;   

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实施日期：2013-06-24，发布日期：2013-07-16

【 摘 要 】

Quality indicators are key elements of quality management. The quality indicators for intensive care medicine of the German Interdisciplinary Society of Intensive Care Medicine (DIVI) from the year 2010 were recently evaluated when their validity time expired after two years. Overall one indicator was replaced and further three were in part changed. The former indicator I “elevation of head of bed” was replaced by the indicator “Daily multi-professional ward rounds with the documentation of daily therapy goals” and added to the indicator IV “Weaning and other measures to prevent ventilator associated pneumonias (short: Weaning/VAP Bundle)” (VAP = ventilator-associated pneumonia) which aims at the reduction of VAP incidence. The indicator VIII “Documentation of structured relative-/next-of-kin communication” was refined.The indicator X “Direction of the ICU by a specially trained certified intensivist with no other clinical duties in a department” was also updated according to recent study results. These updated quality indicators are part of the Peer Review in intensive care medicine. The next update of the quality indicators is due in 2016.

【 授权许可】

   
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