Critical Care Vital Signs Monitoring

Critical Care Vital Signs Monitoring (CCVSM) is a Cross Canada ICU Collaborative. ICU QI team share and compare counts for various patient quality of care indicators such as VAP, Central Line Related Blood stream Infection (CLR-BSI), Line count, to name a few.

See: CCVSM Presentation 2009-National Score Care-Canadian ICU Patient Safety Collaborative and the Canadian Critical Care Society

See: CCVSM Report 2009-Critical Care Vital Signs Monitor: A scorecard for safe and effective patient care in the ICU

See: CCVSM 2007-08-Presentation-Dr. Carla Chrush, Department of Critical Care, Medicine, University of Calgary, AB]

Data is also reported as part of the Quarterly report.

Dr. Kendiss Olafson, our project's statistician & Jodi Walker Tweed are involved in this project.

Important Note

The CCVSM Web page is current not available. There are changes going on with this program which are currently in discussion and planning. Julie will advise when she is aware that it is back up and running. -Trish Ostryzniuk 12:28, 2012 October 2 (CDT)