Board Meeting Agenda July 2012 - Birmingham Children's Hospital
Board Meeting Agenda July 2012 - Birmingham Children's Hospital
Board Meeting Agenda July 2012 - Birmingham Children's Hospital
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Deaths in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)<br />
CUSUM Charts<br />
Another way of representing outcome data is by cumulated sum charts. These can be used where there is<br />
a score available to give a risk of mortality for each individual patient. Currently this method is in use at<br />
BCH for intensive care and cardiac surgery patients.<br />
The charts use data from all patients, not just deaths, so are more powerful than SMR in detecting<br />
problems.<br />
For BCH, the PICU CUSUM<br />
is a good reflection of<br />
overall hospital mortality<br />
as over 70% of deaths at<br />
the hospital occur on<br />
PICU. There is no<br />
evidence of systemic care<br />
failures which could have<br />
contributed to deaths on<br />
PICU.
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