Multidisciplinary Burn Care Committee

Multidisciplinary Burn Care Committee 1. The purpose of the committee is to provide oversight and leadership to the entire burn program. The exact format will be hospital specific and may be accomplished by collaboration with another designated burn center. Each burn center may choose to have one or more committees as needed to accomplish the task. One committee should be multidisciplinary and focus on program oversight and leadership. The major focus will be on PI activities, policy development, communication among all team members, and establishment of standards of care, and education and outreach programs for injury prevention. The committee has administrative and systematic control and oversees implementation of all program related services, meets regularly, takes attendance, maintains minutes and works to correct overall program deficiencies to optimize patient care. Attendance from the list below must be at least 50% or greater and reported at least quarterly. Membership for the committee should include representatives from: a. Administration b. Operating Room c. Anesthesia d. Burn and/or Plastic Surgery e. Burn Emergency/Emergency Medicine f. Pre-hospital providers g. Intensive Care h. Radiology i. Laboratory j. Rehabilitation k. Respiratory Therapy l. Nursing m. Burn Program Manager/BPM 2. The clinical managers (or designees) of the departments involved with burn care should play an active role with the committee. 3. The burn center may wish to accomplish performance improvement activities in this committee or develop a separate peer review committee. This committee should handle peer review independent from department based review. The committee must meet regularly and maintain attendance and minutes. This committee must report findings to the overall hospital performance improvement program.