Project Impact provides answers

Project impact provides a means for intensive care units (ICUs) to compare their practice patterns and patient outcomes with others across the nation. Society of Critical Care Medicine-sponsored software maintains confidentiality for individual practitioners and patients. Seventy currently participating ICUs pay an annual fee and lease special Project Impact software to track data they collect on patients. Data from ICUs are collected at a central registry, stripped of patient/physician identifiers, and assembled into quarterly reports for participant use.