Steering committee Terms of Reference

Revised: May 5, 2003 Revised: October 2, 2006

Regional Critical Care/Medicine Database Steering Committee

1.1 - Membership:

• Senior representative from Critical Care Program
• Senior representative from Medicine Program
• Data Collection Manager
• Process Analyst/Engineer
• Statistician

1.2 - Budgets – The committee will review costs and expenses to determine whether the budget is sufficient and to make recommendations to the two programs.

1.3 - Review and approve all changes to the data collection elements

1.4 - Review and approve all changes to the database and programs

1.5 - Review and approve all significant change to data collection procedures

1.6 - Review and prioritize requests for additional data collection requests

1.7 - Discuss and deal with issues related to quality and completeness of data

1.8 - Review data analysis and make recommendations based on observations

1.9 - Review the number and types of requests from the database.

1.10 - Minutes will be circulated

Group Memberships

see also Critical Care Review Group

Regional ICU/MEDICINE Database Program Steering Committee

Members of this team oversee the overall direction of the WRHA Regional ICU/Medicine database program and provide support to the database project coordinating committee to achieve the programs goal. MEMBERS: (to be re-evaluated once per year - every October)

• Dr. Dan Roberts (Head of Database Program ICU/Med)
• Jodi Walker Tweed (Primary ICU Director Rep.)
• Dr. Boyan Paunovic (ICU Rep.)(Acting Director)
• Dr. Allan Garland
• Randy Martens (ICU Budget Admin Rep.)
• Mary Ann Lynch (Medicine Director Rep)
• Marie Bevan (Medicine Budget Admin Rep)
• Linda Hathout / Tina Tenbergen(Process Engineer)
• Julie Mojica (Statistician)
• Trish Ostryzniuk (Data Collection Manager)
• Dr. Kendiss Olafson (April-2012)
• Dr. Boyan Paunovic (April 2012)