Quality management plays a major role in ensuring that good quality is not only achieved, but also maintained.
In all areas of the Department of Pediatric Cardiology & Intensive Care Medicine, various mechanisms ensure that quality-relevant key figures are recorded. We are constantly expanding our system. In the intensive care unit, the data records are reviewed for relevant events before a patient is discharged and these are then recorded and evaluated. As part of the Competence Network for Congenital Heart Defects, the OR and the cardiac catheterization laboratory participate in the central data collection as part of the national quality assurance (QA) for the treatment of congenital heart defects.
More information on the Competence Network for Congenital Heart Defects More information on national quality assurance
PD Dr. Dietmar Böthig is responsible for the databases and the analysis of the data sets fed into them. Thanks to his qualifications in medical informatics and biometrics and his previous clinical work, he is ideally qualified for quality management.
Dr. Alexander Horke is Head of the Department of Congenital Heart Surgery. He is responsible for quality management in his department and for participation in national quality assurance. He is also coordinator of the National Quality Assurance for the Society of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery.
Dr. Thomas Jack is a senior physician at Paediatric Intensive Care Unit 67 and has introduced digital patient management systems to record quality-relevant data. This data ensures, for example, that relevant infectious agents are identified in everyday clinical practice - and thus increases patient safety.
In addition to his clinical work in the cardiac catheterization laboratory, Sascha Baumgärtner is responsible for maintaining the data records of interventional paediatric cardiology as part of his participation in the National Quality Assurance.
