Quality Improvement
VPS has expanded its QI efforts in several areas including training, workshops, and collaborative QI projects.
Comparative Reporting
High-fidelity reports comparing data from your institution to other institutions of your choice.
Research
VPS has the largest research association in pediatric critical care internationally.
Cases
Producing High-Quality Data
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Have Submitted Data to VPS
Research Publications
Used VPS Data
ABOUT US
Insights to Improve Critical Care Quality & Outcomes in Your Unit
VPS brings together a community of pediatric critical care colleagues who are dedicated to standardized data sharing, benchmarking, quality improvement and research among pediatric PICUs to improve the care of their patients.
Participants commit to the collection of high-quality data elements that are important to understand, evaluate and improve care and outcomes for critically ill children.
The VPS Community collaborates to compare data, determine best practices and improve the overall quality of pediatric critical care using comparable and customizable reports and dashboards.
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
WHY CHOOSE US
The VPS Difference
High-Quality Data
VPS data has extensive data quality validations (with Inter-rater reliability greater than 95%)
Benchmarking
Access comparative reports to compare your PICUs metrics against all PICUs participating in VPS
Comparative Reporting
Customize PICU to like-hospitals of your choosing, ensuring your benchmarking is a true apple-to-apple comparison
Granular Data
Granular Data for PICU specific data (e.g., mechanical ventilation, cardiac arrest, PICU procedures and complications, patient diagnoses, neurological outcomes, etc.)
Visualization & Reporting Products
Easily report on and visualize your data using VPS’s robust products (myComparativeReports, myDashboards, myQueries. etc.)
Peer-Reviewed Severity of Illness Models
We are the only pediatric PICU database using validated severity of illness scores (e.g., PIM-3, PRISM III, PICSIM and STS-EACTS)
Community Powered
We are an active community of PICUs – VPS’s reports and development is driven by feedback and participation of our members
Rich Data for Research
Access to granular data covering over 1.75 million PICU admissions for your research needs