Intensive care is a vital service in the public health care system, providing critical care to patients with life-threatening illnesses. The Intensive Care Unit Outcomes Monitoring and Improvement Programme (ICUOMP) was commissioned by the Coordinating Committee in Intensive Care (COC(ICU)) in 2015. Using Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) IV system as a reference, ICUOMP established refined and contemporary risk adjusted models to effectively benchmark the ICU performance in Hospital Authority (HA).
The ICUOMP aims to develop a reliable local contemporary clinical audit related to critically ill patients in intensive care units (ICUs), measure and enhance the quality of critical care services, and advise strategic planning of ICU services within HA.
ICUOMP provides reliable and high-quality information on several aspects of ICUs. It assists COC(ICU) to improve professional care by increasing understanding of patient characteristics, disease severity, outcomes, resource utilization, and capacity planning in the short and long term.
Over the years, ICU utilization has been increasing, while the crude hospital mortality rate has remained relatively stable. Demographic characteristics of patients and multi-level analysis have identified statistically significant variables related to mortality and long-stayers.
