QA Infection VAP

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Program:	CC
Requestor:	Critical Care QI Team
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The Critical Care QI Team is monitoring VAPs in the ICUs. This project is in collaboration with CCVMS which is a cross Canada ICU collaborative project.

Data Collection Instructions

For all ICU patients except STB_CICU & STB_ACCU:

If a patient

• meet all criteria of a Acquired Diagnosis / Complication of VAP while in your unit

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• Contact QI Officer & Local Manager. Use the "generate email" button include date of VAP
• make the following entry in tmp:

• Project: QAInf
• Item: VAP
• date_var: date (no time) positive sputum culture was sent to micro lab.

• For ICU patients in STB_CICU & STB_ACCU:
• When you have a VAP, email the local manager and Effi Shams who is the Quality Officer for Cardiac Sciences.

If a sputum culture is no longer a defining feature of VAP, do we need to change this to something else? We would definitely need to allow for not having a sputum culture date.

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Don't use TMP as notes

Please do not enter this TMP until you have actually confirmed a DX of VAP exists. Use the Notes field on you laptop as a reminder if needed.

Data Use

Ventilator Associated Pneumonia Rate

Dates

• Start Date: Saturday August 22, 2009
• End Date: NONE - Continued project with the CCVSM cross Canada Collaborative--TOstryzniuk 16:53, 4 October 2010 (CDT)

Cross checks

See QA Infection

Data Integrity Checks (automatic list)

none found

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