Collaboratives

What Is a Collaborative?

With participation in ACS NSQIP, ACS NSQIP Pediatric, and MBSAQIP, hospitals can come together to share information. Collaborative participation gives your hospital the ability to:

Discover QI Opportunities

Standardize and Streamline Care

Reduce Surgical Complications

Learn from Each Other

Share Data

Benefits

Group leverage

Changing culture in a hospital can be hard to do on an individual level but collaborative leverage can be very impactful.

Collaborative reports and benchmarking

Collaboratives have access to real-time, non-risk-adjusted online benchmarking reports via the Registry Platform.

The ACS provides risk-adjusted collaborative reports that contain site-specific as well as collaborative-wide results for the corresponding programmatic semi-annual reporting period. The leadership of identified data-sharing collaboratives also receives detailed reports providing identified hospital-level performance. To monitor performance outside of formal reporting cycles, collaboratives have access to real-time non-risk-adjusted benchmarking reports via the Registry Platform.

Health system-level reporting

ACS data registries are a great backbone for health systems as we offer system-level risk-adjusted reports where hospitals can compare themselves to the rest of the system and all NSQIP/NSQIP Pediatrics or MBSAQIP. The system also receives an aggregate-level report.

Participants can compare results in a cooperative, learning environment

Creating an environment that welcomes all and fosters honest and open dialogue allows member hospitals to regularly compare their results in a cooperative, learning environment.

Ability to identify and share best practices among collaborative participants

The sharing of best practices and exchange of ideas between collaborative sites can lead to new quality improvement initiatives and allow higher performers to help lower performers.

Procedure- and outcome-specific based

Groups can focus on procedures or outcomes that have been identified as an area of interest or concern. Custom fields can be utilized for these special projects.

Special sessions at ACS Quality & Safety Conference

The ACS Quality & Safety Conference each year features presentations from collaboratives on how they are organized to how they are utilizing the data registries for their quality improvement needs.

No extra fees or costs

Currently, there are no extra fees or costs to form or participate in a collaborative and receive collaborative reports.

Deliverables

Reports

Semi-annual collaborative risk-adjusted reports
Real-time, non-risk adjusted benchmarking reports on Data Registry

These reports enable the hospital to benchmark itself and compare results with the collaborative as a whole and with all hospitals in the program.

Do you have a quality improvement project you would like to add to the case study repository? Contact us today!

Quality Resources and Education

Collaborative Resource Toolkit
Collaboratives have access to the variety of education opportunities available to individual hospitals on the program Resource Portal
Collaborative-focused sessions at the ACS Quality and Safety Conference
Participant Use Files allowing hospitals the flexibility to conduct independent analysis on NSQIP, NSQIP Pediatric, or MBSAQIP data.
ACS Quality Improvement Course: The Basics
Collaboratives can use the ACS Quality Framework to help plan, conduct, evaluate, and report on their quality improvement projects. Access the Quality Framework and the Framework Toolkit
Using the ACS Quality Framework, collaboratives can submit their projects to the Case Study Repository and showcase their efforts.

Join Today

Collaboratives are available to all participating hospitals in ACS NSQIP, NSQIP Pediatric, and MBSAQIP. For more information on joining a current collaborative or forming a new collaborative, contact us at nsqipcollaboratives@facs.org.