[Indicators of quality in the critical patient]. / Indicadores de calidad en el enfermo crítico.

The utility of using quality indicators as a tool to measure the common practice and evaluate efficacy of measures established to improve quality has been demonstrated, making it possible to identify and make known the improvements carried out. The project "Quality indicators in the critical patient" has been conducted by the Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Medicine (SEMICYUC) under the methodological management of the Foundation Avedis Donabedian (FAD) of Barcelona. Its objective was to develop key indicators in the care of the critical patient, considering the following as added values: reaching an agreement on the quality criteria in these patients and providing the professionals with a potent and reliable instrument for clinical evaluation and management, introducing common evaluation methods that make it possible to unify the measure, making a comparative evaluation (benchmarking), having information that makes it possible to develop quality plans (quantitative, objective, reliable and valid data) and having a system that assures total quality of care to the critical patient.

Indicadores de calidad en el enfermo crítico / Indicators of quality in the critical patient

El uso de indicadores de calidad ha demostrado su utilidad como herramienta para medir la práctica habitual y evaluar la eficacia de medidas establecidas para la mejora de la calidad permitiendo identificar y diseminar las mejores prácticas. El proyecto «Indicadores de calidad en el enfermo crítico» ha sido realizado por la Sociedad Española de Medicina Intensiva y Crítica (SEMICYUC), bajo la dirección metodológica de la Fundación Avedis Donabedian (FAD) de Barcelona. El objetivo del mismo fue el desarrollo de indicadores clave en la atención del enfermo crítico considerándose como valores añadidos: consensuar los criterios de calidad en estos pacientes, y facilitar a los profesionales un instrumento potente y fiable para la evaluación y la gestión clínica; introducir métodos de evaluación comunes que permitan unificar la medida, evaluar comparativamente (benchmarking), disponer de información que permita el desarrollo de planes de calidad (datos cuantitativos, objetivos, fiables y válidos) y disponer de un sistema que garantice la calidad total de la asistencia del enfermo crítico

The utility of using quality indicators as a tool to measure the common practice and evaluate efficacy of measures established to improve quality has been demonstrated, making it possible to identify and make known the improvements carried out. The project «Quality indicators in the critical patient» has been conducted by the Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Medicine (SEMICYUC) under the methodological management of the Foundation Avedis Donabedian (FAD) of Barcelona. Its objective was to develop key indicators in the care of the critical patient, considering the following as added values: reaching an agreement on the quality criteria in these patients and providing the professionals with a potent and reliable instrument for clinical evaluation and management, introducing common evaluation methods that make it possible to unify the measure, making a comparative evaluation (benchmarking), having information that makes it possible to develop quality plans (quantitative, objective, reliable and valid data) and having a system that assures total quality of care to the critical patient