PICANet’s key quality improvement (QI) resources for participating organisations are detailed below.
If you have conducted an effective QI project involving PICANet data/ using any of these resources we would like to hear from you. Please contact us at picanet@leeds.ac.uk.
PICANet's Key metrics
PICANet’s key metrics cover the whole patient pathway from initial referral to paediatric intensive care, specialist transport, and inpatient care.
The PICANet Key Metrics Definitions details the current metrics and the Supporting quality: PICANet’s key metrics document outlines the processes and quality improvement resources available to aid participating organisations to collect complete, good quality data that feeds into the metrics and respond to areas that show as a cause for close monitoring or concern.
Risk-adjusted resetting sequential probability ratio test (RSPRT) plots
Real-time ‘RSPRT’ plots enable PICUs to monitor their mortality outcomes on a timely and regular basis. RSPRT Guidance for Units is available to assist PICUs in identifying and responding to potential issues with quality of care in a time-sensitive fashion. The guidance includes a case study from a PICU team that responded to a RSPRT reset which was a cause for concern requiring internal review. Further to the case study in the guidance, the PICANet Annual Meeting 2022 discussion session, PICANet RSPRT in PICU, is available on our website. This features two PICU clinicians talking about their experience of using RSPRT plots to monitor mortality in their units.
Having a cause for concern RSPRT status does not mean that the PICU will be identified as a potential outlier in the formal outlier analysis which is based on standardised mortality ratios. Should a unit be identified as a potential positive or negative statistical outlier for risk-adjusted in-PICU mortality, the PICANet Outlier Policy will be followed.
National Clinical Audit Benchmarking Program (NCAB), England PICANet’s key metrics are reported to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) annually to inform inspection planning of NHS and private hospitals in England and are publically available on the NCAB portal along with each provider’s performance the previous year, the national average and, where applicable, national standard.
PICANet data
Local data downloads All participating organisations are able to access real-time local data downloads and reporting to support and stimulate QI discussions.
Tables and figures
Tables and figures are provided with each annual State of the Nation Report. These are provided on the Reports and publications page for the latest report and in the Annual Report Archive for previous editions. The tables and figures are in an accessible Excel Workbook format to enable participating organisations to assess and monitor their performance against other PICUs or centralised transport services to inform local and regional QI initiatives.
PICANet Data Dashboard
The PICANet Data Dashboard is a selection of charts showing data relating to some of PICANet’s key metrics. Clinical teams involved with patient care can use these along with other resources that PICANet provide to develop local quality improvement strategies and compare compliance with audit performance metrics.
Data collection resources
PICANet’s data manuals and guidance are available online.
Ethnicity data collection Guidance and resources for asking about ethnicity, collecting and recording it are available from Ethnicity – NHS Digital, which signposts to Improving ethnicity data collection for health statistics in the UK (IQBAL, Gulnaz, GUMBER, Anil, JOHNSON, Mark R.D, SZCZEPURA, Ala, WILSON, Sue and DUNN, Janet A (2009). Improving ethnicity data collection for health statistics in the UK. Diversity and Equality in Health and Care, 6 (4), 267-285).
PICANet Reports and Meetings
The latest annual State of the Nation Report is available on the Reports and publications page and previous editions are available in the Annual Report Archive.
Traditionally PICANet host an Annual Meeting for participating PICUs and Specialist Retrieval and Transport Services. PICANet report findings are presented and associated QI topics discussed.
Video recordings of the talks given at the Annual Meeting held on 26 Jan 2022 are available on our website.
PICANet’s key metrics cover the whole patient pathway from initial referral to paediatric intensive care, specialist transport, and inpatient care.
The PICANet Key Metrics Definitions details the current metrics and the Supporting quality: PICANet’s key metrics document outlines the processes and quality improvement resources available to aid participating organisations to collect complete, good quality data that feeds into the metrics and respond to areas that show as a cause for close monitoring or concern.
Risk-adjusted resetting sequential probability ratio test (RSPRT) plots
Real-time ‘RSPRT’ plots enable PICUs to monitor their mortality outcomes on a timely and regular basis. RSPRT Guidance for Units is available to assist PICUs in identifying and responding to potential issues with quality of care in a time-sensitive fashion. The guidance includes a case study from a PICU team that responded to a RSPRT reset which was a cause for concern requiring internal review. Further to the case study in the guidance, the PICANet Annual Meeting 2022 discussion session, PICANet RSPRT in PICU, is available on our website. This features two PICU clinicians talking about their experience of using RSPRT plots to monitor mortality in their units.
Having a cause for concern RSPRT status does not mean that the PICU will be identified as a potential outlier in the formal outlier analysis which is based on standardised mortality ratios. Should a unit be identified as a potential positive or negative statistical outlier for risk-adjusted in-PICU mortality, the PICANet Outlier Policy will be followed.
National Clinical Audit Benchmarking Program (NCAB), England PICANet’s key metrics are reported to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) annually to inform inspection planning of NHS and private hospitals in England and are publically available on the NCAB portal along with each provider’s performance the previous year, the national average and, where applicable, national standard.
PICANet data
Local data downloads All participating organisations are able to access real-time local data downloads and reporting to support and stimulate QI discussions.
Tables and figures
Tables and figures are provided with each annual State of the Nation Report. These are provided on the Reports and publications page for the latest report and in the Annual Report Archive for previous editions. The tables and figures are in an accessible Excel Workbook format to enable participating organisations to assess and monitor their performance against other PICUs or centralised transport services to inform local and regional QI initiatives.
PICANet Data Dashboard
The PICANet Data Dashboard is a selection of charts showing data relating to some of PICANet’s key metrics. Clinical teams involved with patient care can use these along with other resources that PICANet provide to develop local quality improvement strategies and compare compliance with audit performance metrics.
Data collection resources
PICANet’s data manuals and guidance are available online.
Ethnicity data collection Guidance and resources for asking about ethnicity, collecting and recording it are available from Ethnicity – NHS Digital, which signposts to Improving ethnicity data collection for health statistics in the UK (IQBAL, Gulnaz, GUMBER, Anil, JOHNSON, Mark R.D, SZCZEPURA, Ala, WILSON, Sue and DUNN, Janet A (2009). Improving ethnicity data collection for health statistics in the UK. Diversity and Equality in Health and Care, 6 (4), 267-285).
PICANet Reports and Meetings
The latest annual State of the Nation Report is available on the Reports and publications page and previous editions are available in the Annual Report Archive.
Traditionally PICANet host an Annual Meeting for participating PICUs and Specialist Retrieval and Transport Services. PICANet report findings are presented and associated QI topics discussed.
Video recordings of the talks given at the Annual Meeting held on 26 Jan 2022 are available on our website.
The PICANet Data Dashboard is a selection of charts showing data relating to some of PICANet’s key metrics. Clinical teams involved with patient care can use these along with other resources that PICANet provide to develop local quality improvement strategies and compare compliance with audit performance metrics.
Data collection resources
PICANet’s data manuals and guidance are available online.
Ethnicity data collection Guidance and resources for asking about ethnicity, collecting and recording it are available from Ethnicity – NHS Digital, which signposts to Improving ethnicity data collection for health statistics in the UK (IQBAL, Gulnaz, GUMBER, Anil, JOHNSON, Mark R.D, SZCZEPURA, Ala, WILSON, Sue and DUNN, Janet A (2009). Improving ethnicity data collection for health statistics in the UK. Diversity and Equality in Health and Care, 6 (4), 267-285).
PICANet Reports and Meetings
The latest annual State of the Nation Report is available on the Reports and publications page and previous editions are available in the Annual Report Archive.
Traditionally PICANet host an Annual Meeting for participating PICUs and Specialist Retrieval and Transport Services. PICANet report findings are presented and associated QI topics discussed.
Video recordings of the talks given at the Annual Meeting held on 26 Jan 2022 are available on our website.
The latest annual State of the Nation Report is available on the Reports and publications page and previous editions are available in the Annual Report Archive.
Traditionally PICANet host an Annual Meeting for participating PICUs and Specialist Retrieval and Transport Services. PICANet report findings are presented and associated QI topics discussed.
Video recordings of the talks given at the Annual Meeting held on 26 Jan 2022 are available on our website.