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Schedule 1—Description of quality assurance activity
1 Name of activity
The name of the quality assurance activity is the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Centre for Outcome and Resource Evaluation Intensive Care Registries.
2 Description of activity
This quality assurance activity is conducted by the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society and consists of five intensive care registries that collect data for auditing and benchmarking of intensive care unit (ICU) performance in Australia. The five registries are:
  * Adult Patient Database
  * Australian and New Zealand Paediatric Intensive Care (ANZPIC) Registry
  * Critical Care Resources (CCR) Registry
  * ICU Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection Registry
  * Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation Database
An additional two datasets collect information across the five registries:
  * Critical Health Resource Information System collecting COVID-19 specific data; and
  * Patient Reported Outcome and Experience Measures database.
The governance structure of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Centre for Outcome and Resource Evaluation (CORE) Intensive Care Registries allows significant liaison with state and territory health departments to improve the quality of services provided in ICUs and includes a Jurisdictional Advisory Group (JAG). The JAG provides a forum for discussion, and ensures outcomes and deliverables are relevant and informative to ongoing improvement in delivery of intensive care services.
Individual submitting ICUs receive access to reports that identify their performance against de-identified peer group hospitals. Regional reports are provided to specific jurisdictional reporting bodies and data review committees. Additional reports with more detailed analysis are produced when outlier performance is detected.
The ANZICS CORE Intensive Care Registries develop an annual activity report that provides summary information for each registry based on aggregated non-identifiable data, disseminated to stakeholders in Commonwealth and state and territory departments of health, hospitals, tertiary institutions, libraries, and international intensive care societies. Individual annual activity reports are provided for the CCR and ANZPIC registries.
The ANZICS CORE Intensive Care Registries also facilitate provision of de-identified data to third-party researchers about the availability and utilisation of critical care resources, patient outcomes, mortality, disease patterns and the effectiveness of intensive care services in Australia.