Table 1.

Quality indicators in critical care.

ESICM quality indicators

1. ICU fulfils national requirements to provide intensive care

2. 24 h availability of a consultant level Intensivist

3. Presence of adverse incident reporting system

4. Presence of routine multi-disciplinary clinical ward rounds

5. Standardised handover procedure for discharging patients

6. Reporting and analysis of standardised mortality ratio

7. Intensive care readmission rate within 48 h of ICU discharge

8. The rate of unplanned endotracheal extubations

9. Rate of CVC-related blood stream infection

Adult critical care clinical reference group dash board quality indicators

1. Percentage of total available critical care bed days utilised for patients more than 24 h after the decision to discharge.

2. Percentage of patients discharged from critical care between 7:00 and 21:59 h.

3. Percentage of discharges readmitted to critical care within 48 h of discharge.

4. Percentage of critical care (L3) unit admissions from another equivalent unit for non-clinical reasons (assigned to discharging unit).

5. Rate of unit acquired infection in blood.

6. Standardised mortality ratio (using ICNARC risk adjustment model) for critical care patients.

7. Standardised mortality ratio (using ICNARC risk adjustment model) for critical care patients with an expected mortality less than 5%.

8. Standardised mortality ratio (using ICNARC risk adjustment model) for critical care patients with an expected mortality between 5% and 10%.

9. Standardised mortality ratio (using ICNARC risk adjustment model) for critical care patients with an expected mortality between 10% and 15%.

10. Proportion of elective surgical critical care bed bookings cancelled due to lack of availability of a post-operative critical care bed.