Maximizing Data Capture for Race and Ethnicity of Children Admitted to Critical Care Units

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Access to complete patient sociodemographic data in a hospital’s electronic health record (EHR) is important for identifying and understanding where health inequities exist and for designing focused interventions to close inequitable healthcare gaps. In our pediatric academic medical center, we made a commitment—in the form of a declaration on equity, diversity, and inclusivity—to being leaders in eliminating child health disparities in our community and in the nation. This commitment led to many hospital-wide actionable steps and initiatives to address inequities in healthcare access, delivery, and outcomes. A plan-do-study-act framework guided this initiative to improve collection of data on the race and ethnicity of ICU patients. Via 4 plan-do-study-act cycles, care vulnerabilities and implemented tests of change were evaluated to achieve the goal of capturing sociodemographic data within 72 hours of patient admission.

Objectives

Describe processes used to understand how race and ethnicity demographic data were collected for children admitted to intensive care units.
Demonstrate how interprofessional care teams can work collaboratively to create innovative solutions to serve our most vulnerable patients.
Share the steps the hospital put in place to decrease the amount of missing race and ethnicity patient data in the electronic health record.

Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

Successful Completion

Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation to be awarded contact hours AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.

Accreditation

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for {contactHours} contact hours.

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