VPS, LLC

Virtual Pediatric Systems, LLC (“VPS”) has grown from a small group of intensivists in 2004 to a national organization with over 1.5 million patient admission records (of which over 130,000 are Cardiac specific) provided by over 200 ICUs. The data base is the largest collaborative for quality improvement based on severity of illness adjusted comparisons of actual, detailed patient records in critical care.

This unique achievement allows VPS to provide state of the art quality reports that are detailed, actionable and comprehensive for practitioners and hospital administrations. VPS has improved the quality of critical care, built the largest national research collaborative, supported the publication of over 125 papers and contributed to saving hundreds of thousands of children’s lives.

VPS, LLC supports a vibrant community of pediatric critical care colleagues who are dedicated to standardized data sharing for improved patient care, research and benchmarking among pediatric ICUs. Participants commit to the collection of high quality data elements that are important to understand, evaluate and improve care and outcomes for critically ill children. The VPS Community collaborates to compare data, determine best practices and improve the overall quality of pediatric critical care. While all participating PICUs collect elements that comprise the VPS minimum dataset, sites may choose to collect additional data elements of interest from the hundreds of possible options. This unique flexibility ensures that VPS will provide a robust dataset to evaluate unique groups of PICU patients, and support meaningful comparisons with national peers.