Safety, quality & education

Perspectives in Pediatric Ambulatory Anesthesia: Part 2—One Center's 15 Year Experience Improving Quality and Safety Outcomes

Paediatr AnaesthPublished Retrospective review of a quality improvement programme

Authors' conclusion

We provide preliminary evidence that these methods may be generalizable.

Study context

Population
Free-standing pediatric ambulatory surgery center (ASC), July 2010 through December 2024
Methodological detailssingle-centre, statistical process control charts, De-identified, aggregated electronic health record (EHR) data extracted by commercial software
  • Single-centre
  • Statistical process control charts
  • De-identified, aggregated EHR data extracted by commercial software

Main finding

As reported in the abstract

  • ≈13-fold increase in quality improvement (QI) project completion rate with self-serve, real-world data access
  • Improvements in all six domains of quality (effectiveness, efficiency/timeliness, patient experience, equity, safety) with reliable sustainability

Observational data: associations, not effects.

Original publication

Perspectives in Pediatric Ambulatory Anesthesia: Part 2—One Center's 15 Year Experience Improving Quality and Safety Outcomes. Paediatr Anaesth. Published 3 July 2026. doi:10.1002/pan.70252

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