Establishing a critical care network in Asia to improve care for critically ill patients in low- and middle-income countries

• Main Authors: Beane, Abi, Dondorp, Arjen M., Taqi, Arshad, Ahsan, A. S. M. Areef, Kumar, Bharath, Vijayaraghavan, Tirupakuzhi, Permpikul, Chairrat, Pell, Christopher, Mat Nor, Mohd Basri, Gandy, David, Priyadarshani, Dilanthi, Aryal, Diptesh, Khiem, Dong Phu, Thuy, Duong Bich, Thwaites, Guy, Kayastha, Gyan, Udayanga, Ishara, Salluh, Jorge, Detleuxay, Khamsay, Ranganathan, Lakshmi, Yen, Lam Minh, Har, Lim Chew, Thwaites, Louise, Hashmi, Madiha, Schultz, Marcus J., Mukaka, Mavuto, Leaver, Meghan, Hayat, Muhammad, Day, Nick, Moonesinghe, Ramani, Haniffa, Rashan, Champunot, Ratapum, Inglis, Rebecca, Sultana, Rozina, Yacoub, Sophie, Harris, Steve, Acharya, Subhash Prasad, Tripathy, Swagata, Ali, Syed Muneeb, Kadhiravan, Tamilarasu, Lubell, Yoel
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: BioMed Central Ltd 2020
• Subjects: RC82 Medical Emergencies, Critical Care, Intensive Care, First Aid
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/87612/1/establishing%20a%20CritCare%20Network.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/87612/7/87612_establishing%20a%20critical%20care%20network.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/87612/; https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-020-03321-7#Fun; https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-020-03321-7
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

When undertaking quality improvement (QI) initiatives, one of the greatest burdens is repeated data collection. Intensive care registries, such as those commonly used in high-income countries (HICs), have enabled systematic capture of routine information needed to measure intensive care unit (ICU) performance. Once considered unfeasible in resource-limited settings, newer cloud-based platforms are gaining increasing traction. Collaborative surveillance platforms, such as NICS-MORU and PRICE, which have mobile and desktop applications, have established methods for daily capture of individual patient-level information and have shown that—even in resource-limited settings—the systematic evaluation of patient care throughout the hospital journey is feasible at scale using coalesced minimal data sets.