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  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Healthcare Management
  • Quality Improvement Science

Background:

  • Intensive care unit (ICU) mortality reduction is increasingly driven by organizational changes and evidence-based practices.
  • Rising healthcare demand, costs, and complexity necessitate optimizing clinical processes and resource utilization.
  • A quality improvement project was designed to address suboptimal clinical performance and outcome data through work process and competence evaluation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To implement and evaluate a quality improvement initiative focused on enhancing clinical performance and patient outcomes in an ICU setting.
  • To optimize multidisciplinary teamwork, clinical processes, and resource utilization for improved cost-effectiveness and patient care.
  • To systematically revise work processes and enhance professional competence through targeted interventions.

Main Methods:

  • A 'scientific production management methodology' was employed to revise clinical processes, professional performance, and competence.
  • An intensivist training program was established, ensuring full-time intensivist coverage and the formation of multi-professional teams.
  • Value stream mapping guided the optimization of staff resources and clinical workflows, with a focus on team dynamics and performance.

Main Results:

  • Consecutive reductions in overall ICU mortality (24%) and long-term mortality (600 days), with a pronounced effect in patients over 65 years (30%).
  • Significant decreases in length of stay (43% for septic patients) and ventilator time (23% for septic patients, 52% for patients >65 years).
  • Substantial gains in life years (13,140) and quality-adjusted life years (9,593), alongside high cost-effectiveness with favorable cost-effectiveness ratios (€75/QALY, €55/life year).

Conclusions:

  • The quality improvement project successfully enhanced clinical performance and quality through improved multi-professional interaction, teamwork, and systematic work process revisions.
  • The intervention demonstrated significant cost-effectiveness, potentially dominating standard care by reducing ICU costs while improving patient outcomes.
  • The findings support the integration of multidisciplinary teams and optimized workflows as a strategy for improving critical care delivery and economic value.