Quality Improvement 

Cardiac arrest remains a leading cause of mortality. In response, many clinical teams across hospitals have developed and implemented resuscitation quality-improvement (QI) programs grounded in evidence-based guidelines.

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To achieve improvements in care, providers must have access to information that enables them to modify behaviors, processes, and systems of care. Key tools that support real-time and longitudinal improvements include patient lists, decision-support tools informed by clinical practice guidelines, and patient- and population-level reporting systems. Crucially, it is not simply the presence of these resources within a QI project that drives improvement, but the consistent use of the tools by frontline providers and the systematic application of QI data to measure and guide practice change.