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Table 1 Overview on data at the institutional level

From: Influence of quality of care and individual patient characteristics on quality of life and return to work in survivors of the acute respiratory distress syndrome: protocol for a prospective, observational, multi-centre patient cohort study (DACAPO)

 

ICU of the referring hospital

Inter-hospital transporta

ICU of the participating hospital

Rehabilitation unit

General characteristics

ownership

 

ownership

ownership

level of care

 

level of care

 

teaching status

 

teaching status

teaching status

specialization of the ICU

 

specialization of the ICU

specialization

  

member of the ARDS network

 
 

transportation via air or via ground

  

Structural quality

qualification of direction, physicians and nurses

qualification of physicians and paramedics

qualification of direction, physicians and nurses

qualification of physicians, therapists and nurses

 

24 h-availability of physicians and nurses

 

24 h-availability of physicians and nurses

24 h-availability of physicians and nurses

 

physician/nurse-patient-ratio

 

physician/nurse-patient-ratio

physician/therapist/

nurse-patient-ratio

 

availability of equipment for diagnostic and therapeutical procedures

availability of equipment for diagnostic and therapeutical procedures

availability of equipment for diagnostic and therapeutical procedures

availability of equipment for diagnostic and therapeutical procedures

Process quality

daily multiprofessional ward rounds with documentation of daily therapy goals

communication between physicians responsible for referral, transportation and admission

daily multiprofessional ward rounds with documentation of daily therapy goals

adoption of institutional and disesase-specific nursing and care concepts

 

monitoring of sedation, analgesia and delirium

 

monitoring of sedation, analgesia and delirium

use of a nursing documentation system

 

lung protective ventilation

 

lung protective ventilation

implementation of treatment pathways

 

daily spontaneous breathing trials

 

daily spontaneous breathing trials

internal quality management

 

documentation of structured caregiver-communication

 

documentation of structured caregiver-communication

documentation of patient-related therapy goals

 

hand disinfection consumption

 

hand disinfection consumption

 
 

implementation of treatment pathways in accordance with up-to-date recommen-dations (e.g. early enteral nutrition, non-invasive ventilation)

 

implementation of treatment pathways in accordance with up-to-date recommen-dations (e.g. early enteral nutrition, non-invasive ventilation)

 

Volume

number of patients per year

 

number of patients per year

number of patients per year

 

number of ventilated patients per year

 

number of ventilated patients per year

number of ventilated patients per year

 

number of patients died within 24 h per year

 

number of patients died within 24 h per year

 
  1. Notes: aData on inter-hospital transport is assessed at the individual patient level; however, it refers to the institutional level as it represents characteristics of quality of health care. bold: variables of main interest