A survey and analysis of peri-operative quality indicators promoted by National Societies of Anaesthesiologists in Europe: The EQUIP project
Authors' conclusion
Few NAS in Europe promoted peri-operative quality indicators. Most of them differed from published sets of validated indicators and were often related to the structural dimension of quality.
Study context
- Population
- National Anaesthesiologists Societies (NAS) affiliated with the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC)NAS
- Participants
- 37 participants
- Outcome
- QIs reported by NAS
Methodological detailsmixed methods analysis, survey questionnaire, Data collection, translations: March 2018 to February 2020
- Mixed methods analysis
- Survey questionnaire
- Data collection, translations: March 2018 to February 2020
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
QIs promoted by NAS
- NAS that had made a set of quality indicators (QIs) available to members
- 12 (32%)
- Data collection mandatory (countries)
- six (16.2%)
- Individual QIs identified
- 163
- QIs descriptive
- 60.1%
- QIs anaesthesia-specific
- 50.3%
- QIs related to intra-operative care
- 21.5%
- QIs measuring structures
- 41.7%
- QIs measuring safety
- 35.6%
- QIs measuring appropriateness
- 20.9%
- QIs measuring prevention
- 16.6%
- QIs measuring patient-centred care (not well covered)
- 3.7%
- QIs corresponding to published validated or well established QI sets
- 11.7%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
A survey and analysis of peri-operative quality indicators promoted by National Societies of Anaesthesiologists in Europe: The EQUIP project. Eur J Anaesthesiol. Published 12 September 2024. doi:10.
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