Steering committee Terms of Reference

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

(ORIGINAL wording: 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.
  • 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)

• • In the fall of 2006 the Database meeting groups were split into two groups:

1.Regional ICU/MEDICINE Database Program Steering Committee. (decision making team)

• 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)

• Dan Roberts (Head of Database Program ICU/Med)
• Betty Lou Rock (Primary ICU Director Rep.)
• Bruce Light (ICU Rep.)
• Allan Garland
• Randy Martens (ICU Budget Admin Rep.)
• Wendy Rudnick (replaced Judy Kaprowy Jan 07)(Medicine Director Rep)
• Marie Brevan
• Linda Hathout (Processing Engineer)
• Julie Mojica (Statistician)
• Trish Ostryzniuk (Data Collection Manager)
  • • Ken Van Ameyde (Medicine rep - not attending- do not include).

2.Database Project Coordinating Committee: (core working group)

• 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 (Head of Database Program)
• Betty Lou Rock (ICU Director Rep.)
• Linda Hathout (Process Engineer)
• Julie Mojica (Statistician)
• Trish Ostryzniuk (Data Collection Manager)
• Tina Tenbergen (Process Analyst)

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 the following:

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)