Irish Paediatric Critical Care Audit National Report 2020: including a special chapter on COVID-19 and Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome (PIMS-TS) 2020–2022

The Irish Paediatric Critical Care Audit (IPCCA) collects personal, organisational, and clinical data on all infants and children with a clinically determined need for paediatric critical care. The audit database is provided by the Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network (PICANet), which aims to support the continual improvement of paediatric intensive care provision throughout the United Kingdom (UK) and the Republic of Ireland (ROI) by providing detailed information on paediatric intensive  care  activity  and  outcomes.  The  quality  of  care  delivered  is  measured  against  the  Paediatric Critical Care Society (PCCS) standards, which cover the entire patient pathway from initial referral to paediatric critical care, specialist transport, and inpatient care.</p

Irish Paediatric Critical Care Audit National Report 2017-2019

The Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network (PICANet) collects information on all patients admitted to paediatric critical care units in the United Kingdom (UK) and the Republic of Ireland (ROI). The objective of this data collection is to measure the quality of care in Paediatric Critical Care Units (PCCUs) and benchmark this against other PCCUs across the UK. Since 2009, reports for the ROI have been produced within PICANet UK in conjunction with the ROI PCCU clinical leads. In 2015, the audit of paediatric critical care was incorporated into the National Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA), which provides support through a clinical audit team and an independent voluntary governance structure.</p