Key result
Future ICU quality indicator development aims to improve process structure via scientific evidence and guideline integration.
Why the study?
Intensive care quality indicators need to meet improved methodological requirements through an enhanced development process focusing on scientific evidence and guideline links.
This methods paper outlines the future development process for intensive care quality indicators, emphasizing scientific evidence and guideline integration.
Improved QI development is needed in intensive care; leaves open effects on patient outcomes and institutional performance.
Intensive care quality indicators will have to meet improved methodological requirements in the future by means of an improved development process. Future QI development is intended to improve the structure of the development process, with a focus on scientific evidence and a link to guideline projects. This is intended to achieve the goal of a broad application of QI and to further evaluate its relevance for patient outcome and performance of institutions.
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Kumpf et al. (2020) studied Intensive care. Future development of intensive care quality indicators aims to improve the development process structure by focusing on scientific evidence and linking to guideline projects.
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