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University of Kansas; Trauma PIPS and ACS Verification

University of Kansas; Trauma PIPS and ACS Verification

  • Last Updated: 2018
  • Author(s): Tracy McDonald, MSN, RN, CCRN K, NEA BC
  • Language(s): English

Why PIPS?

  • Evaluates
    • patient care outcome
    • provider response
    • system performance
  • Improves patient care at bedside level
  • Fosters competent and current providers
  • Evaluates the cost of care
  • Enhance the fiscal aspect of a surgical program

ACS-COT requirements

  • “Demonstrate a continuous process of monitoring, assessment, and management directed at improving care”
  • “This effort should routinely reduce unnecessary variation in care and prevent adverse effects”
  • “the PIPS program must be supported by a reliable method of data collection that consistently obtains the information necessary to identify opportunities for improvement” CD 15 3 (I IV)