Quality Improvement
Comparative Reporting
Research
The 2026 VPS Quality Summit & User Conference
Join PICU physicians, researchers, critical care nurses and respiratory therapists, hospital quality leaders, and improvement professionals as we explore how data is leading and impacting change to improve Pediatric Critical Care today. VPS membership is not required to attend.
Cases
PICUs
Research Publications
ABOUT US
VPS brings together a community of pediatric critical care colleagues who are dedicated to standardized data sharing, benchmarking, quality improvement and research among pediatric PICUs to improve the care of their patients.
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 using comparable and customizable reports and dashboards.
Manuscripts
200+ Research Manuscripts Utilizing VPS Data
Research Requests
Interested in VPS Data
for Your Research Needs?
WHY CHOOSE US
High-Quality Data
Benchmarking
Access comparative reports to compare your PICUs metrics against all PICUs participating in VPS
Comparative Reporting
Granular Data
Granular Data for PICU specific data (e.g., mechanical ventilation, cardiac arrest, PICU procedures and complications, patient diagnoses, neurological outcomes, etc.)
Visualization & Reporting Products
Peer-Reviewed Severity of Illness Models
We are the only pediatric PICU database using validated severity of illness scores (e.g., PIM-3, PRISM III, PICSIM and STS-EACTS)
Community Powered
Rich Data for Research
Access to granular data covering over 1.75 million PICU admissions for your research needs
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