Projects

This is a list of some of the projects that are sponsored, supported, or associated with the PEDAL subgroup and its members. This is not a comprehensive list. If you want to include your project(s) here, please contact us.

PICU Data Collaborative – The PICU Data Collaborative is comprised of institutions who contribute anonymized pediatric critical care electronic health record data to a shared data platform which resides in a private cloud-computing environment hosted by the Laura P. and Leland K. Whittier Virtual Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (VPICU) at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

Quantifying PICU Clinical Decision Support – As a follow-up to a prior qualitative assessment of clinical decision support use and beliefs across PICUs, we are supporting the creation of a centralized repository of passive and active decision support. With this dataset we will examine site-specific differences in alerts, order set usage, documentation templates, as well as result and laboratory highlighting. We will identify optimal order sets for specific conditions and provide guidance on passive decision support usage.

Difficult and Critical Airway Practices in Children – This joint project between the NEAR4KIDS subgroup and PEDAL aims to understand the definitions of critical and difficult airway across institutions, as well as understand the composition of airway response teams. Additionally we aim to classify and assess the usability of the electronic health record identification of patients at risk of critical or difficult airway.

DONATE: Death One Hour after Terminal Extubation – This series of studies led by Dr. Meredith Winter at CHLA aims to predict which patients will die within the organ recovery period for donation after cardiac death. First developed on data from a single center, it was then expanded to include multicenter retrospective data. Through the subgroup Dr. Winter has identified partners and workshopped implementation methods.