Quality management in intensive care : a practical guide

Formerly CIP.

Introduction Part I. Quality Management of Patient Care: 1. Use of checklists Mark Romig, Asad Latif and Peter J. Pronovost 2. Daily goal discussions Hans U. Rothen and Matthias Haenggi 3. Common ICU procedures – central venous catheters insertion and management Davide Bastoni, Maurizio Cecconi and Andrew Rhodes 4. Use of guidelines and bundles Oliver Kumpf, Felix Balzer and Claudia Spies 5. Nosocomial/healthcare-associated infections Caroline Landelle and Didier Pittet 6. Optimal handover of ICU patients Marieke Zegers, Nelleke van Sluisveld and Hub Wollersheim 7. Diagnostic pathways Hans Flaatten 8. Transport of ICU patients Carole Schwebel, Claire Fossard and Clémence Minet 9. Mortality and morbidity conferences Iris Pélieu and Christophe Faisy 10. Intensive care unit triage Charles Gomersall 11. End-of-life care Wai-Tat Wong and Gavin M. Joynt Part II. Quality Management of the ICU: 12. Tools to improve patient safety and adverse events Andreas Valentin 13. Clinical data management Olaf L. Cremer and Casper W. Bollen 14. Electronic ICU management systems Brian W. Pickering 15. ICU staff: needs and utilization Gaetano Iapichino and Dinis dos Reis Miranda 16. Severity scoring, improved care? Rui P. Moreno and Joana Manuel 17. Implementation of evidence-based practice Jeffrey M. Singh and Damon C. Scales 18. Addressing barriers for change in clinical practice Paul R. Barach 19. Teambuilding Tanja Manser 20. Conflict management in the intensive care unit Katerina Rusinova and Elie Azoulay 21. From polio to hospital-wide care – the evolution of intensive care Ken Hillman, Michael Parr and Anders Aneman 22. Patient and family satisfaction Ruth Endacott 23. Follow-up after intensive care Folke Sjöberg and Lotti Orvelius 24. In situ small-scale simulation Pascale Gruber and Rebecca-Lea Smith Part III. Quality Management on the National (and International) Level: 25. National ICU registries Sten M. Walther and Göran Karlström 26. Quality indicators Peter van der Voort 27. Benchmarking: from comparison to performance Bertrand Guidet and Yên-Lan Nguyen 28. Volume and outcome Yên-Lan Nguyen and Bertrand Guidet 29. Competence based training and education Francesca Rubulotta and Adrian Wong 30. Applications of telemedicine in the intensive care unit Rob Boots, Neil Widdicombe and Jeffrey Lipman Epilogue Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book is one of the first to comprehensively summarise the latest thinking and research in the rapidly evolving field of quality management in intensive care. Quality indicators and outcome measures are discussed with a practical focus on patient-centred, evidence-based implementation for safer and more effective clinical practice. Chapters on topics such as teambuilding, patient satisfaction, mortality and morbidity, and electronic management systems are organised into three sections, covering quality management at the scale of the individual patient, the intensive care unit, and the national and international level. Written by a team of over forty international experts in the specialty, with editors who have been heavily involved for many years with the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, the book reflects commonly accepted goals and guidelines for best practice, and will be valuable for practitioners worldwide. The ideal one-stop resource for intensive care physicians as well as ICU and hospital managers.