The Pediatric Sepsis Data CoLaboratory (Sepsis CoLab) is an international data-sharing network for collaboration to address pediatric sepsis mortality and morbidity, and to improve sepsis treatments and outcomes.
Led by the Institute for Global Health at BC Children's Hospital and BC Women's Hospital + Health Centre (IGH-BCCWH) and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (WFPICCS), the Sepsis CoLab facilitates partnerships to develop and validate tools for data collection and data sharing, enabling continuous quality improvement of care in secondary level health facilities across the world.
Current projects include an environmental scan, which is a method for evaluating the quality of care delivered to critically ill children at health facilities. Its purpose is to support health facilities in identifying and assessing quality improvement (QI) priorities and initiatives.
Interested in joining the CoLab? More information on the CoLab can be found here, or by contacting the project coordinator, Jessica Trawin, at jessica.trawin@cw.bc.ca.
Congratulations to Dr Mark Ansermino, Dr Niranjan Kissoon, Dr Matthew Wiens, Dr Gina Ogilvie, Dr Srinivas Murthy, Gurm Dhugga, Maggie Woo Kinshella, and Jessica Trawin! The team from the Pediatric Sepsis Data CoLaboratory (Sepsis CoLab), the IGH-BCCWH, and the University of British Columbia (UBC) has been awarded a Data Champions Pilot Project grant from the Digital Research Alliance of Canada.
The project aims to improve maternal, newborn and child health (MCNH) outcomes through capacity building and optimizing the re-use of clinical data through:
- Open Data training,
- Research supported de-identification methods for clinical data,
- Advocating for better data access policies at academic institutions, and
- Drafting an interdisciplinary grant proposal to inform future Open Data initiatives.
Establishing sustainable research data management infrastructure will facilitate a more streamlined data sharing process and advance the adoption of open data methods among the Canadian MNCH research community. This project is supported in part by funding from the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, which plays a critical role in advancing the Government of Canada's National Digital Research Infrastructure Strategy.
