Ensuring the most advanced surgical care in pediatrics
Find a Participating HospitalThe success of ACS NSQIP® in providing hospitals with high-quality surgical outcomes data and methods to improve care has led to ACS NSQIP® Pediatric. It helps hospitals collect reliable clinical data and compare their surgical outcomes with the outcomes of other participants in the program.
ACS NSQIP Pediatric is open to all pediatric hospitals, including free-standing 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.
Hospitals that participate in one of our Quality Programs, including ACS NSQIP Pediatric, earn the distinction as an ACS Surgical Quality Partner (SQP).
Developed in partnership with the American Pediatric Surgical Association, ACS NSQIP Pediatric is the nation’s first and only risk-adjusted, clinical, outcomes-based program to measure and improve pediatric surgical care.
Why this matters: Quality improvement programs in the pediatric population are limited to specific operations or medical fields. Other quality programs attempt to use data from administrative databases, which are not as robust as the clinical data used in the ACS NSQIP Pediatric.
Why this matters: A highly trained Surgical Clinical Reviewer (SCR) is responsible for collecting preoperative risk factors, intraoperative variables, and 30-day postoperative outcomes in each case included in the ACS NSQIP Pediatric. The data submitted is complete, uniform, and valid.
Why this matters: Consisting of case details, case occurrence, benchmarking, and risk adjusted semiannual reports, the ACS NSQIP Pediatric provides comparisons to participating sites that adjust for several risk variables.
Why this matters: Hospitals can close the loop to improve care using the data and reports. Many participating hospitals have successfully used their reports to find areas on which to focus quality improvement (QI) efforts. These QI efforts improve care and outcomes and reduce cost by decreasing complications.
How Does the ACS NSQIP Pediatric Help Patients?
ACS NSQIP Pediatric has continued to grow in variables, data collection, reports, and participation. Sites are guided through quality improvement efforts and the collection of 1,400 cases a year. These efforts lead to lower costs and better outcomes.
How Does the ACS NSQIP Pediatric Help Hospitals?
ACS NSQIP Pediatric is a multispecialty, procedure-targeted program, which benefits participating hospitals by allowing them to collect data on specific, high-risk, high-volume procedures drawn from 6 subspecialty areas.
This also includes data collection on Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis, Surgical Opioid Stewardship, and Process Measures for urgent surgical conditions in children. Participants can focus their QI efforts on areas that will yield the greatest return on investment, as well as define important benchmarks for quality within their specialty.
Who Can Join the ACS NSQIP Pediatric?
ACS NSQIP Pediatric is open to all pediatric hospitals, including free-standing 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.