Pakistan Registry of Intensive CarE (PRICE): Expanding a lower middle-income, clinician-designed critical care registry in South Asia. (August 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hashmi, M; Beane, A; Taqi, A; Memon, MI; Athapattu, P; Khan, Z; Dondorp, AM; Haniffa, R
• Is Part Of: Journal of the Intensive Care Society. Volume 20:Number 3(2019:Aug.)
• Page Start: 190
• Page End: 195
• Publication Date: 2019-08
• Subjects: Intensive care -- health system strengthening -- intensive care registries -- low and middle income countries; Critical care medicine -- Periodicals; Intensive care units -- Periodicals; 616.028
• DOI: 10.1177/1751143718814126
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1751-1437

Abstract

Introduction: In resource-limited settings – with inequalities in access to and outcomes for trauma, surgical and critical care – intensive care registries are uncommon. Aim: The Pakistan Society of Critical Care Medicine, Intensive Care Society (UK) and the Network for Improving Critical Care Systems and Training (NICST) aim to implement a clinician-led real-time national intensive care registry in Pakistan: the Pakistan Registry of Intensive CarE (PRICE). Method: This was adapted from a successful clinician co-designed national registry in Sri Lanka; ICU information has been linked to real-time dashboards, providing clinicians and administrators individual patient and service delivery activity respectively. Output: Commenced in August 2017, five ICU's (three administrative regions – 104 beds) were recruited and have reported over 1100 critical care admissions to PRICE. Impact and future: PRICE is being rolled out nationally in Pakistan and will provide continuous granular healthcare information necessary to empower clinicians to drive setting-specific priorities for service improvement and research.