Critical Care Program

Quality Improvement & Patient Safety

The Adult Critical Care Program is dedicated to ongoing quality improvement in patient care delivery. Quality improvement is achieved through the implementation of best practices as determined by local, national, and international health care specialists.

Through association with the Critical Care Collaborative and Safer Health Care Now our hospitals are working to provide the best quality care based on the latest expert advice. Using rapid cycle quality improvement technique we are investigating quality improvement opportunities and affecting change.

Current initiatives:

• Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP)
  
• Sepsis
• Medical Emergency Team (MET)
• Central Line Check List

Links to quality improvement sites:

• Safer Health Care Now!
• Institute for Health Care Improvement IHI
• Critical Care Collaborative

We are also collaborating with other ICU's across Canada to define indicators of quality care. Through comparing ourselves with other ICU's we hope to identify opportunities for improvement.