Frameworks for quality improvement in pediatric intensive care: A concise review.

Quality improvement programs focused on improving care in intensive care units have become standard at pediatric hospitals around the world over the past several decades. However, the methodology or framework by which these programs assess quality is not standard. This review describes the varying quality improvement frameworks that have been promoted by prominent pediatric and critical care societies and the strengths and limitations of these frameworks, as well as several notable international collaboratives in this domain.

Quality improvement in pediatric intensive care: A systematic review of the literature.

Importance: Measuring and improving performance is an essential component of any high-risk industry, including intensive care medicine. We undertook this systematic review to describe the current state of quality improvement efforts in pediatric intensive care medicine.

Objective: To evaluate the quality and rigor of all published literature on quality improvement efforts in the pediatric intensive care unit in the current era.