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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
Quality Programs

PII Participation 2023

PII Participation

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

  • Collect clinically relevant data in the SSR including outcomes
  • Access the SSR reports and evaluate your SSR quality data
  • Describe your data findings and registry data experience
  • Use the SSR as a Practice Improvement Tool
  • Analyze data identifying trends, gaps, improvement opportunities
  • Share your results with a surgeon peer group
Who Should Participate

All surgeons are eligible and encouraged to participate:

  • Private practice or hospitals
  • Rural and urban settings
  • Practice general surgery or specialty surgery
Why You Should Participate in SSR PII
  • Every patient’s surgical result matters
  • Outcomes quality data is available real-time
  • Drive your data review effectively and timely
  • Compare your individual data to aggregated registry data
  • Identify trends, gaps, and improvement actions
  • Reflect on your data-learning experience
  • Obtain CME credit
Uses of SSR PII - Quality Case Data Review and Reflection
  • Perform review and assessment of your case data continuously using SSR Analytics Reports/ Data Download Report/Benchmarking Report effectively.
  • Quality matters—elevate your surgical quality performance by identifying trends, gaps, and improvement opportunities.
  • Exchange experiences with the PII peer surgeon group led by PII surgeon moderators and collaborate safely on improved surgical patient care solutions.
  • Utilize PII for American Board of Surgery (ABS) Practice Improvement requirements.
Participate Using the EASE Model
  • Enter your clinically relevant case data.
  • Analyze your quality data continually via SSR Analytics/SSR reports/Benchmarking report.
  • Share what you have learned with your peers on the experience exchange call facilitated by a PII surgeon moderator.
  • Evaluate and identify areas to enhance your practice performance (trends, gaps, improvement actions).

For any questions, please contact the SSR team at ssr@facs.org.