How Do We Use Dashboards to Enhance Quality in Cardiac Anesthesia?: Cardiac Anesthesia Clinical Dashboards

Abstract The use of clinical dashboards has expanded significantly in healthcare in recent years in a variety of settings. The ability to analyze data related to quality metrics in one screen is highly desirable for cardiac anesthesiologists as we have considerable influence on important clinical outcomes. Building a robust quality program within cardiac anesthesia relies on consistent access and review of quality outcome measures, process measures, and operational measures through a clinical dashboard. Signals and trends in these measures may be compared to other cardiac surgical programs to analyze gaps and areas for quality improvement efforts. In this article, we describe how we designed a clinical cardiac anesthesia dashboard for quality efforts at our institution.