Sustained Performance of Cardiac Arrest Prevention in Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Units.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4) cardiac arrest prevention (CAP) quality improvement (QI) project facilitated a decreased in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) incidence rate across multiple hospitals. The sustainability of this outcome has not been determined.

Objective

To examine the IHCA incidence rate at participating hospitals after the QI project ended and discern which factors best aligned with sustained improvement.

Design, setting, and participants

This observational cohort study compared IHCA data from the CAP era (July 1, 2018, to December 31, 2019) with data from the 2-year follow-up era (March 1, 2020, to February 28, 2022). Data were obtained from pediatric cardiac intensive care units (CICUs) from 17 PC4 CAP-participating hosp

SUBMITTER: Mueller D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11385048 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature