Steering committee Terms of Reference

Terms of Reference

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

1.1 - Membership: one senior administrator/director representative from each program group (one from the Critical Care Program and one form the Medicine Program), Data Collection Manager, one Process Analyst and the Statistician.

1.2 - Budgets – The committee should be able to review costs and expenses to determine whether the budget is sufficient and to make recommendations to the program. (Randy Martens to provide appropriate wording for this section of the terms of reference)

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 - Send minutes of Database Steering Team.

Discussion

• Point 1.2 - Did Randy Martens ever provide the wording? Ttenbergen 16:17, 6 June 2008 (CDT)
  • No. TOstryzniuk 11:57, 21 July 2008 (CDT)

• Point 1.10 is not clear. Who is the database steering team, and are they different from the steering committee? Ttenbergen 16:17, 6 June 2008 (CDT)
• How does this compare to "the larger group" who sometimes meets? Ttenbergen 16:17, 6 June 2008 (CDT)
  • In the fall of 2006 with the agreement of Betty Lou and Dan, I broke the Database meeting groups into two.

1. 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: (needs re-evaluation as discussed April 2007)

• Dan Roberts
• Betty Lou Rock
• Bruce Light
• Randy Martens
• Wendy Rudnick (replaced Judy Kaprowy Jan 07)
• Ken Van Ameyde
• Linda Hathout
• Julie Mojica
• Trish Ostryzniuk

1. Database Project Coordinating Committee:

• Members of this team are responsible to coordinate, plan and organize the changes required to move the database program in the direction decided on by the Regional ICU/MED Database Steering Committee
• Dan Roberts
• Betty Lou Rock
• Linda Hathout
• Trish Ostryzniuk
• Julie Mojica
• Trish Ostryzniuk
• Tina Tenbergen

TOstryzniuk 12:18, 21 July 2008 (CDT)

• Who is the representative from critical care, Betty-Lou Rock or Dr. Light? Ttenbergen 16:31, 6 June 2008 (CDT)
  • Both. TOstryzniuk 12:18, 21 July 2008 (CDT)

• I propose replacing 1.1 with

1.1 Membership:

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

Ttenbergen 16:21, 6 June 2008 (CDT)

• I propose replacing 1.2 with something other than "should be able to". Hopefully once we have Randy's wording we will be able to do this. Ttenbergen 16:34, 6 June 2008 (CDT)