Irish Paediatric Critical Care Audit (IPCCA)

This audit provides a complete account of activity and outcomes in all paediatric intensive care units providing critical care to children in the ROI. In addition to data from specialised paediatric critical care units and from transfer and retrieval services that traditionally provide data to PICANet (based in the UK), this audit also includes data from adult ICUs and the regional Paediatric High Dependency Unit at UHL, giving a complete description of national activity.

Purpose: The overall purpose of the IPCCA is to improve critical care services provided to paediatric patients by measuring the quality of care and outcomes against predetermined standards, using data from the UK and the Republic of Ireland (ROI) as a whole as a benchmark.

Objectives:

 Measure the quality of care in CHI at Crumlin and CHI at Temple Street, and benchmark this against other PCCUs across the UK  Provide data on the epidemiology and complexity of care provided for each patient. This has

Coverage: National audit with data collection from public hospitals with Paediatric critical care units, the regional Paediatric High Dependency Unit at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) and children aged < 16 treated in adult ICU.

Under consideration: regional paediatric high dependency units and intensive