Why the study?
Despite the complexity and risk associated with ICU care, only a small number of operational indicators are used.
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Current limited ICU indicators warrant caution in quality assessment; leaves open need for stakeholder-driven, patient-centered metrics.
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.
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Jawad et al. (2021) studied this question.
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