Research

Virtual PICU

As a member of the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions, the PICU at Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach is participating in its Virtual PICU Performance System (VPS). The VPS system – a clinical database dedicated to standardized data sharing and benchmarking among PICUs with a focus on quality and comparative, multisite data capabilities – ensures the necessary data infrastructure within its initiative to eradicate catheter-associated blood stream infections (CA-BSI) in children.

VPS participants collect and share information on PICU quality control, patient and hospital measures, diagnoses, interventions, discharge, organ donation and pediatric risk of mortality scores. Hospitals can compare patient mix, performance and outcomes with peers. VPS also tracks and trends individual and aggregate clinical patient data, facilitates patient flow, documents patient care and collects data for multisite research studies.

PALISI

Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach belongs to PALISI, or Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators. PALISI is a collaboration of clinical researchers with the goal of improving the care and health outcomes of critically ill children. Fifty pediatric intensive care units across the United States and Canada participate in this network focusing on identifying optimal support, prevention and therapeutic strategies for acute lung injury, sepsis, multi-organ failure and other acute, life-threatening pulmonary or systemic inflammatory syndromes.

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