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  • Title: [Viennese SIDS prevention campaign-- a quality management project].
    Author: Ipsiroglu OS, Stekel H, Pollak A, Kaspar L.
    Journal: Wien Klin Wochenschr; 2000 Mar 10; 112(5):221-5. PubMed ID: 10763535.
    Abstract:
    At the 4th Austrian SIDS Consensus Meeting (1998), consultation was the focus of attention. Secure sleep, the Vienna SIDS prevention campaign, is an information campaign in cooperation with the children's hospitals of Vienna with the aim of reducing the incidence of SIDS in and around Vienna. The campaign was intended to spread awareness concerning care measures to reduce SIDS as well as to reduce SIDS related anxiety (SRA) among anxious parents. The Vienna SIDS prevention campaign is a quality management project, the core of which is consultation. Demands upon the structural quality of a SIDS consultation office include the expertise, communication skills and psychological competence of the consulting team. This can be achieved through interdisciplinary continuing education, international networking and training in communication skills. Priority is given to supporting care for the client by an interdisciplinary team headed by a case manager with the required communication skills. The qualitative outcome is defined by a primary objective medical goal (reduction of SIDS mortality) and a secondary subjective psychological goal (reduction of SRA). It also includes raising effectiveness and efficiency through optimal consultation and, finally, reducing costs by saving expenditure for monitors. The quality of SIDS consultation can be measured by evaluating satisfaction in patients as well as among co-workers.
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