The Limitations Of Standardized Mortality Ratios For Coronavirus Disease 2019 ICU Patients
Quintairos A, Zampieri FG, Souza-Dantas VC, Salluh JIF.
Crit Care Med. 2021 Jul 29.
by: The LOGIC Team
Time To Revisit Treatment Limitations In Critical Care Benchmarking
Beane A, Dongelmans DA, Fernandez AL, Guidet B, Haniffa R, Arias Lopez MP, Pilcher D, Salluh J, Vijayaraghavan BKT; Linking of Global Intensive Care Collaboration (LOGIC).
Crit Care Med. 2021 Apr 1;49(4):e472-e473. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000004834.
Data-Driven ICU Management: Using Big Data And Algorithms To Improve Outcomes
Abstract
The digitalization of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) led to an increasing amount of clinical data being collected at the bedside. The term “Big Data” can be used to refer to the analysis of these datasets that collect enormous amount of data of different origin and format. Complexity and variety define the value of Big Data. In fact, the retrospective analysis of these datasets allows to generate new knowledge, with consequent potential improvements in the clinical practice. Despite the promising start of Big Data analysis in medical research, which has seen a rising number of peer-reviewed articles, very limited applications have been used in ICU clinical practice. A close future effort should be done to validate the knowledge extracted from clinical Big Data and implement it in the clinic.
In this article, we provide an introduction to Big Data in the ICU, from data collection and data analysis, to the main successful examples of prognostic, predictive and classification models based on ICU data. In addition, we focus on the main challenges that these models face to reach the bedside and effectively improve ICU care.
Future Perspectives For Clinical Quality Registries In Critical Care
Haniffa R; Linking of Global Intensive Care (LOGIC) Consortium.
J Crit Care. 2021 Jun;63:279. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2020.12.004.
by: The LOGIC Team
A Scoping Review Of Registry Captured Indicators For Evaluating Quality Of Critical Care In ICU
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Despite the complexity and risk associated with ICU care, there are only a small number of operational indicators used. Future selection of QIs would benefit from a stakeholder-driven approach, whereby the values of patients and communities and the priorities for actionable improvement as perceived by healthcare providers are prioritized and include greater focus on measuring discriminable processes of care.