Developed in partnership with the American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA), the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP®) Pediatric option is the nation’s first and only risk-adjusted, clinical, outcomes-based program to measure and improve pediatric surgical care. The program is open to all pediatric hospitals, including freestanding general acute care children’s hospitals, children’s hospitals within a larger hospital, specialty children’s hospitals, or general acute care hospitals with a pediatric wing that want to collect reliable clinical data including 30-day outcomes.
The ACS NSQIP Pediatric has continued to grow in program variables, data collection, reports, and participation. The ACS NSQIP Pediatric guides participating hospitals in quality improvement efforts, as well as guidance throughout their collection of 1,400 cases a year.
The ACS NSQIP Pediatric is moving to a procedure-targeted style program. This program is designed to benefit participating hospitals by allowing them to collect data on specific high-risk, high-volume procedures drawn from six subspecialty areas. This allows participants to focus their quality improvement efforts on areas that will yield the greatest return on investment as well as comparative analysis against participating hospitals. It will also provide the opportunity for experts within each surgical specialty to define the important benchmarks for quality within their specialty.
National Conference
Each year, the Quality and Safety Conference provides a professional forum for surgeon champions, surgical clinical reviewers (SCRs), and other hospital employees involved in ACS NSQIP and ACS NSQIP Pediatric quality efforts to discuss and apply the most recent knowledge pertaining to national and local surgical quality initiatives. There are practical sessions on analysis and use of ACS NSQIP data as well as breakout sessions on surgical topics.
Data Reports
Hospitals have around-the-clock access to their hospital-level case data via the case details report, which allows sites to pull standard case data and custom fields data—including pilot data—efficiently in one report. Participating sites also have data for real-time non-risk adjusted benchmarking reports that allow them to benchmark their results against other sites in the program. Hospital level data is risk-adjusted twice a year by the ACS NSQIP statistical team, in order to further assist with quality improvement initiatives.
