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Data completeness in the Finnish Intensive Care Quality Consortium database

Authors: P Mussalo, J Tenhunen

Published in: Critical Care | Special Issue 2/2007

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Benchmarking has been an essential part of intensive care medicine in Finland since 1994. At present, web-based quality/performance reports are shared with the 24 members of the Finnish Intensive Care Quality Consortium (FICQC). Thirteen ICUs collect FICQC data manually and 11 ICUs utilize data collection software (IVT) integrated with the Clinical Information System (CIS). In recent literature, the completeness of data between centralized medical benchmarking registries varies widely [1, 2]. We hypothesized that: (1) the completeness of data in FICQC has increased over the years and (2) the variation between the different units still exists. …

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Title: Data completeness in the Finnish Intensive Care Quality Consortium database
Authors: P Mussalo
J Tenhunen
Publication date: 01-03-2007
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Critical Care / Issue Special Issue 2/2007
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/cc5661

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