Intensive care unit quality improvement: A “how-to” guide for the interdisciplinary team*
Objective: Quality improvement is an important activity for all
members of the interdisciplinary critical care team. Although an
increasing number of resources are available to guide clinicians,
quality improvement activities can be overwhelming. Therefore, the
Society of Critical Care Medicine charged this Outcomes Task Force
with creating a “how-to” guide that focuses on critical care, sum-
marizes key concepts, and outlines a practical approach to the
development, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance of an
interdisciplinary quality improvement program in the intensive care
unit.