Auditing Management of Acute Pancreatitis Using Comprehensive Quality Indicators

Objectives Recently, 40 comprehensive quality indicators in various management domains were created. The aim was to determine if these indicators could be used to audit the management of acute pancreatitis. Methods A retrospective study of consecutive patients admitted with acute pancreatitis in 2018 was conducted. Adherence rates with the individual quality indicators were calculated and compared between services. Results A total of 320 patients were included in this study. Twenty-eight of the 40 quality indicators (70%) could be used to audit management retrospectively. The medical service was found to have lower adherence rates for quality indicators 12 (initial assessment and risk stratification domain; 11% vs 22%, P = 0.009), 14 (initial management domain; 72% vs 88%, P = 0.003), and 33 (surgery domain; 83% vs 100%, P = 0.006). The surgical service was noted to have statistically significant lower adherence rates for quality indicators 4, 5, and 6 of the etiology domain (54% vs 72%, P = 0.002; 86% vs 96%, P = 0.004; and 45% vs 71%, P
Source: Pancreas - Category: Gastroenterology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research