The Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC⁴) aims to improve the quality of care to patients with critical pediatric and congenital cardiovascular disease.
We are a collaborative of over 70 hospitals that participate in the care of critically ill patients with pediatric and congenital heart disease. Using our continuously updated data infrastructure, multi-institutional quality improvement and research projects, and our transparent collaborative learning processes, we partner with one another to improve the care of these precious and fragile patients.
PC⁴ is a multi-institutional collaboration committed to discovery through transparent sharing of data. PC⁴ provides member institutions with high-quality outcome data to benchmark performance and to identify opportunities for local quality improvement initiatives.
We partner with professional organizations and other quality collaboratives across geographic and subspeciality boundaries to integrate with existing databases and harmonize our common efforts.
We seek to advance pediatric cardiac intensive care medicine through high-impact science, collaborative learning, identification of evidence-based best practices, and public dissemination of this information.
The Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC⁴) is an international leader in the effort to improve outcomes across the lifespan of critically ill patients with pediatric and congenital heart disease. The Data Coordinating and Analytic Center (DCC) for PC⁴ is housed within the Michigan Congenital Heart Outcomes Research and Discovery (M-CHORD) Program at The University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital.
The DCC is responsible for communicating with participating sites, coordinating the efforts of our partnering vendors providing data collection capabilities and data feedback to the sites, developing and implementing risk adjustment models for benchmarking, and analyzing comprehensive registry and research data collected within PC⁴. These data are used to examine variation in outcomes and practice patterns, generate new knowledge linking processes of care to outcomes, and identify best practices and opportunities for quality and efficiency improvement.
The DCC supports participants in establishing quality improvement goals, conducting rigorous science, and in implementing evidenced-based practices. DCC personnel include a dedicated project coordinator, data manager, biostatistician, and quality improvement expert. The PC⁴ Data Coordinating Center provides participating hospitals with:
PC⁴ is a proud member of Cardiac Networks United, which aims to align and integrate efforts across networks in pediatric and congenital heart disease to foster novel science and accelerate translation of discovery to improvements in care.
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