University of Kansas; Trauma PIPS and ACS Verification

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)