Enhancing Quality of Care Assessments: Managing Atypical Patients in ICU Benchmarking in The Netherlands
The results highlight how atypical patients negatively affect mortality prediction accuracy and influence ICU quality assessments. Therefore, it is essential to identify and account for these cases when evaluating ICU care by incorporating the proposed framework into routine benchmarking, thereby enhancing the reliability and fairness of performance evaluations.
Authors
- Ameen Abu Hanna
- Sylvia Brinkman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0383-3329)
- Fabian Termorshuizen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4831-9507)
- Nicolette F. de Keizer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6651-1730)
- Giovanni Cinà (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3521-8208)
- Mohammad Azizmalayeri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0997-9318)
- Dave Anton Dongelmans (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8477-6671)
Institutions
- GGD Amsterdam (NL)
- Amsterdam University Medical Centers (NL)
- University of Amsterdam (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Critical Care Medicine
- Published
- 2025-08-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/ccm.0000000000006828
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 9.39
Funders
- Rivierduinen