Children's Cardiology Up-to-Date Online Resources for Education (CUORE) project: remote education for training in pediatric critical care medicine.

摘要

To the Editor-The Children's Cardiology Up-to-Date Online Resources for Education (CUORE) project was a pilot collaborative initiative between clinicians in the cardiac intensive care unit (ICU) at Children's Hospital Boston and the pe-diatric ICU of the Catholic University Hospital in Santiago, Chile. The primary aim of this pilot study was to evaluate the feasibility of a remote education program to share information between Children's Hospital Boston and Catholic University Hospital in Santiago as an opportunity to improve standards of care in a pediatric ICU with more limited resources. We chose the prevention of healthcare-acquired infection in the pediatric critical care setting as our initial program to enhance quality outcomes, with the primary hypothesis that the application of a multifaceted educational intervention aimed at increasing provider awareness of evidence-based infection control practices would lower the incidence of central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in the "remote" pediatric ICU in Chile.