Key result
The PRAN collaborative database establishes practice standards, defines complication incidences, and facilitates quality improvement.
Why the study?
Large-scale collaborative databases are essential to establish standards of practice and define incidence of complications and risk/benefit ratios for rare events in pediatric regional anesthesia.
Large-scale collaborative databases like PRAN are essential for establishing standards of practice and defining complication incidences in pediatric regional anesthesia.
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PRAN enables multicenter tracking of pediatric regional anesthesia complications; leaves open prospective validation before practice change.
Quality assurance and improvement (QA/QI) is a critical activity in medicine. The use of large-scale collaborative databases is increasingly essential to obtain enough reports with which to establish standards of practice and define the incidence of complications and risk/benefit ratios for rare events. Such projects can enhance local QA/QI endeavors by enabling institutions to obtain benchmark data against which to compare their performance and can be used for prospective analyses of inter-institutional differences to determine 'best practice'. The pediatric regional anesthesia network (PRAN) is such a project. The first data cohort is currently being analyzed and offers insight into how such data can be used to detect trends in adverse events and improve care.
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Polaner et al. (2011) conducted a review in Pediatric regional anesthesia. Pediatric Regional Anesthesia Network (PRAN) was evaluated. The Pediatric Regional Anesthesia Network (PRAN) is a collaborative database designed to establish practice standards, define complication incidences, and facilitate quality improvement.
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