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Optimizing Your Existing CRRT Program

Take your current CRRT program to the next level with a data-driven approach for meaningful improvements.

 

 

Quality improvement programs (QIPs) can enhance CRRT delivery

Assessing quality

Variation in the clinical practice of CRRT may contribute to a reduction in the quality of therapy and the provision of suboptimal patient care.1-3

Improving quality

QIPs identify and prioritize areas to improve therapy delivery, to implement processes to measure, and to increase the overall quality of patient care.1,4

Optimizing quality

Robust QIPs for CRRT are still in development1 but have the potential to support patient-centered care and align therapy delivery to improve workflow efficiencies.

5 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

The 22nd Acute Disease Quality Initiative (ADQI) Consensus Report (2019) and additional publications have defined filter life, therapy downtime, dosing, adverse events and management of fluid balance as key quality indicators (QIs) for acute renal replacement therapy.1,4,5

 

These 5 key performance indicators (KPIs) can be tracked to unlock opportunities for improvements in your CRRT program. Do you have a CRRT quality improvement program today?

Filter life

Do you know your average filter life?

Therapy downtime

Do you know the percentage of time your patients receive therapy?

Dosing

Do you know your gap between prescribed versus delivered effluent dose?

Alarm events

Do you know which alarm events occur most often in your CRRT patients?

Fluid balance

Do you know the average percentage of fluid volume removed in your patients?

Implementing data-driven quality improvements

More than 30 metrics can be tracked across these five key quality indicators to give you data that empowers you to take action. For example:

  • Did you know you can take steps to improve filter life?

  • Do you know what to train your staff on next? 

  • Did you know the potential root causes for therapy downtime could include machine parameters, variances in how your team manages therapy across shifts, and more?

Contact Vantive to see how you can optimize your CRRT program with improvements based on your data.

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Your partner in implementing a quality improvement plan for CRRT

  • Are you looking for help tracking your data and identifying actionable insights and quality assurance? We have several product offerings and CRRT specialists to support you.

  • Are you currently manually subscribing your data? Vantive’s TrueVue Connect allows you to connect the PrisMax System to your EMR to sync data.

  • Are you looking for data-driven insights? TrueVue Therapy Management can provide the information you need to support improvements in the quality and efficiency of your CRRT program.

Vantive’s CRRT specialists can also provide data review and help identify actionable insights.

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Measuring key metrics for consistent therapy delivery

With the TrueVue Analytics dashboard, Vantive’s team of clinical specialists can share hospital-specific data.
 

  • Do you want to find a way to trend and assess performance metrics and compare between shifts and hospitals?

  • Do you want an easy way to report internal quality indicators and standards?

  • Do you want a tool to help inform inventory management?

Contact Vantive today to find out how
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Your partner in delivering patient-centered care

Interested in finding out more? Contact Vantive to discuss how we can support you in implementing a QIP for your CRRT program.

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Important Safety Information

The Prismaflex and PrisMax Systems are intended for:

Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) for patients weighing 20 kilograms or more with acute renal failure and/or fluid overload.

Therapeutic Plasma Exchange (TPE) therapy for patients weighing 20 kilograms or more with diseases where fluid removal of plasma components is indicated.

 

Rx Only. For safe and proper use of the products mentioned herein, please refer to the appropriate Operator’s Manual or Instructions for Use.

 

Vantive, Prismaflex and PrisMax are trademarks of Vantive Health LLC or its affiliates.

References

  1. Rewa OG, Eurich DT, Noel Gibney RT, Bagshaw SM. A modified Delphi process to identify, rank and prioritize quality indicators for continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) care in critically ill patients. J Crit Care. 2018;47:145-152.

  2. KDIGO Acute Kidney Injury Work Group. KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline for Acute Kidney Injury. Kidney Int Suppl. 2012;2(1):1-138.

  3. Stewart JA. Adding insult to injury: care of patients with acute kidney injury. Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2009;70(7):372-373.

  4. Rewa OG, Tolwani A, Mottes T, et al. Quality of care and safety measures of acute renal replacement therapy: Workgroup statements from the 22nd acute disease quality initiative (ADQI) consensus conference. J Crit Care. 2019;54:52-57.

  5. Mottes TA, Goldstein SL, Basu RK. Process based quality improvement using a continuous renal replacement therapy dashboard. BMC Nephrol. 2019;20:17.