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

Template:Discussion (ORIGINAL wording was as follows, is this replacement accepted?: 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) Template:Discussion

• How about: The committee will review costs and expenses to determine whether the budget is sufficient and to make recommendations to the program.

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. Template:Discussion

• Point 1.10 is not clear.
  • a.Who is the database steering team, and are they different from the steering committee? Ttenbergen 16:17, 6 June 2008 (CDT)
  • b. How does this compare to "the larger group" who sometimes meets? Ttenbergen 16:17, 6 June 2008 (CDT)

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 as discussed April 2007)

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

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

• Dr. Dan Roberts (Head of Database Program)
• Jodi Walker Tweed (ICU Director Rep.)
• Linda Hathout (Process Engineer)
• Julie Mojica (Statistician)
• Trish Ostryzniuk (Data Collection Manager)
• Tina Tenbergen (Process Analyst)