Joint Commission Measure Reserve Library
March 13, 2009

National Hospital Quality Measures - ICU

The Specifications Manual for National Hospital Quality Measures - ICU is comprised of 6 measures. Four have been recommended for potential national implementation, while two measures are to be implemented as test measures not to be publicly reported or included in the Joint Commission accreditation process until additional information on training needs, reliability, and the impact of reliability on the predicted outcomes can be ascertained.

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Reference Materials:

ICU Manual

Clinical Advisory Panel to Identify Hospital-Based Critical Care Core Measures*

 

* All information was current at the time the individual served on the Advisory Panel.  This information has not been updated.

Peter Angood, MD, FCCM

Director, Trauma Center

Washington University School of Medicine

St. Louis, Missouri

Elizabeth Daleen Aragon, PhD, CCRN, FCCM

Clinical Nurse Research Scientist

Orlando Regional Healthcare System

Orlando, Florida

Michael J. Breslow, MD, FCCM

Executive Vice President, Research & Development

VISICU, Inc.

Baltimore, Maryland

Neal H. Cohen, MD, MPH, MS

Director, Critical Care Medicine

Professor, Anesthesia and Medicine

Vice Dean, University of California

San Francisco, California

R. Adams Dudley, MD, MBA

Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Policy

University of California

San Francisco, California

Judith Jacobi, PharmD

Critical Care Pharmacist

Methodist Hospital / Clarian Health

Indianapolis, Indiana

Edward J. Kimball, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Co-Director Surgical Critical Care

University of Utah Health Science Center

Salt Lake City, Utah

Mitchell M. Levy, MD, FCCM, FCCP

Medical Director of MICU

Rhode Island Hospital

Providence, Rhode Island

Justine Medina, RN, MS

Practice Director

American Association of Critical Care Nurses

Aliso Viejo, California

Arnie Milstein, MD, MPH

Medical Director

Pacific Business Group on Health

National Healthcare Thought Leader

Mercer Human Resource Consulting

San Francisco, California

Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD (Chair)

Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine / Surgery / Health Policy and Management

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Baltimore, Maryland

Sheila Roman, MD, MPH

Senior Medical Officer

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Baltimore, Maryland

 

Carl Alexander Sirio, MD, FACP, FCCP, FCCM

Associate Professor, Anesthesia & Critical Care Medicine / Medicine / Pharmacy & Therapeutics

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Stephanie Storgion, MD

Associate Professor, Pediatrics

University of Tennessee, Memphis

Medical Director

LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center

Memphis, Tennessee

Steven M. Whitney, RN, MSN, CCRN

Clinical Director, Critical Care and Telemetry

East Georgia Regional Medical Center

Statesboro, Georgia