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Table 3 Barriers to implementation of quality indicators

From: A scoping review of registry captured indicators for evaluating quality of critical care in ICU

Barriers identified

References

Operational Barriers

• Concerns about inaccuracy associated with retrospective data entry

• Time burden of data collection

• Bias/ inability to reproduce/ verify data due to manual data collection

• Poor replicability of data extraction process.

• Data missingness

[29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51]

Acceptability Barriers

• Indicator definition unactionable.

• Required processes of care associated with indicator not measured limiting interpretability

• Data quality concerns about self-reporting and responder biases

• Concerns about the ramifications for individual clinician and ICU team performance

[35, 36, 40, 46, 52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71]