How safe is my intensive care unit? Methods for monitoring and measurement.

Sean M Berenholtz; Aliaksei Pustavoitau; Steven J Schwartz; Peter Pronovost

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How safe is my intensive care unit? Methods for monitoring and measurement.

November 21, 2007

Berenholtz SM, Pustavoitau A, Schwartz SJ, et al. Curr Opin Crit Care. 2007;13(6):703-8.

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In developing a scorecard that enables intensive care units to assess the quality of medical care they deliver, the authors use both valid rate-based and nonrate-based measures to evaluate outcomes, processes, structure, and context of care.

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