Enhancing Quality of Care Assessments: Managing Atypical Patients in ICU Benchmarking in The Netherlands.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Benchmarking the quality of care in ICUs contributes to ensuring that patients receive high-quality care. However, the performance metrics in benchmarks may be influenced by atypical patients, those with characteristics that deviate from the typical ICU population. This study aims to provide a framework to identify and reduce the impact of atypical patients in ICU benchmarking, leading to more meaningful ICU performance assessments.

Design

The proposed framework compares patients from each ICU to the aggregated data from the rest of the ICUs to identify patients in the isolated ICU with an atypical clinical data pattern. To benchmark ICU quality of care, we used the standardized mortality ratio (SMR) derived from the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation

SUBMITTER: Azizmalayeri M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12577650 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature