Irish National ICU Audit Annual Report 2017.
dc.contributor.author | National Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA) | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-07T10:43:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-02-07T10:43:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-02-06 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2565-6309 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/624094 | |
dc.description | By the end of 2017, the Irish National Intensive Care Unit Audit (INICUA) run by the National Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA) covered 58% of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) activity in adult Health Service Executive (HSE) funded hospitals (12 Units in nine hospitals) and all ICU activity in both specialist paediatric hospitals in the Republic of Ireland (ROI). Both the adult and paediatric audits collaborate with audit organisations in England. The Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC) (adults) and the Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network (PICANet) (paediatrics) advise NOCA, monitor the quality of data, and analyse the data in order to provide quarterly (adult) and annual (adult and paediatric) reports on activity and on the quality of care in ICUs. These reports benchmark Irish data against all comparable Units in the United Kingdom (UK). This first annual report summarises the data from the INICUA Network Quality Report 2017 (from ICNARC) and the Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network Annual Report 2018: Summary Report: Data collection period January 2015–December 2017 (Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network, 2018a). A NOCA review has confirmed that the Audit datasets and data quality assurance processes are aligned with Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) guidelines. National governance of INICUA is provided by the NOCA ICU Audit Governance Committee. The NOCA ICU Audit Governance Committee refers any outlier findings to the applicable hospital’s chief executive officer (CEO), who will investigate the reasons for outlier data. The hospital then liaises with NOCA to outline the outcome of its investigation and to confirm that actions are being taken to resolve the issues identified. Patient experience and outcomes are at the heart of the Audit, and this report includes a patient story from a patient who survived a life-threatening illness in ICU. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | National Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA) | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ | * |
dc.subject | INTENSIVE CARE UNITS | en_US |
dc.subject | CLINICAL AUDIT | en_US |
dc.title | Irish National ICU Audit Annual Report 2017. | en_US |
dc.type | Report | en_US |
refterms.dateFOA | 2019-02-07T10:43:29Z |