• Michael Gaies, David S Cooper, Sarah Tabbutt, Steven M Schwartz, Nancy Ghanayem, Nikhil K Chanani, John M Costello, Ravi R Thiagarajan, Peter C Laussen, Lara S Shekerdemian, Janet E Donohue, Gina M Willis, J William Gaynor, Jeffrey P Jacobs, Richard G Ohye, John R Charpie, Sara K Pasquali, and Mark A Scheurer.
• 1Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases,Division of Cardiology,C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and University of Michigan Medical School,Ann Arbor,Michigan,United States of America.
• Cardiol Young. 2015 Jun 1;25(5):951-7.

AbstractDespite many advances in recent years for patients with critical paediatric and congenital cardiac disease, significant variation in outcomes remains across hospitals. Collaborative quality improvement has enhanced the quality and value of health care across specialties, partly by determining the reasons for variation and targeting strategies to reduce it. Developing an infrastructure for collaborative quality improvement in paediatric cardiac critical care holds promise for developing benchmarks of quality, to reduce preventable mortality and morbidity, optimise the long-term health of patients with critical congenital cardiovascular disease, and reduce unnecessary resource utilisation in the cardiac intensive care unit environment. The Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4) has been modelled after successful collaborative quality improvement initiatives, and is positioned to provide the data platform necessary to realise these objectives. We describe the development of PC4 including the philosophical, organisational, and infrastructural components that will facilitate collaborative quality improvement in paediatric cardiac critical care.

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