ACS NSQIP Pediatric

The 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).

150+

participating hospitals

44

states and 7 countries

145,000+

cases submitted in 2022

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How Is ACS NSQIP Pediatric Different from Other Quality Programs?

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.

The ACS NSQIP Pediatric is the only national database to report multispecialty surgical outcomes in children.

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.

The ACS NSQIP Pediatric uses accurate and robust clinical data.

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.

The ACS NSQIP Pediatric has an extensive reporting system.

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.

The ACS NSQIP Pediatric reduces costs by improving care.

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.

Program Specifics

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?

Children's Surgery Verification

The ACS Children’s Surgery Verification Improvement Program addresses the surgical care of infants and children. The CSV Program aims to bring pediatric surgical care to every child in need in North America.

Participant Use File

The PUF contains patient-level, aggregate data and does not identify hospitals, healthcare providers, or patients.

Find a Participating Hospital

Find an ACS NSQIP Pediatric-participating hospital near you.

Pediatric Surgical Risk Calculator

ACS NSQIP® Pediatric data power a preoperative risk calculator tool that allows clinicians to input an individual patient’s risk factors into a statistical model that calculates the likelihood of various outcomes.

Collaboratives

Collaboratives come together to discuss best practices and quality improvement initiatives, and compare outcomes in a positive learning environment.

Quality & Safety Conference

Learn about the latest developments in surgical quality and safety, engage with world-renowned experts, and gain actionable improvements for your institution at the 2024 ACS Quality and Safety Conference, July 18-21, in Denver.

Quality Resources

ACS Quality Framework

The ACS Quality Framework is a set of criteria that provides guidance to help all hospitals successfully complete their quality improvement projects.

Case Studies

Review case studies from various ACS quality program participants and how they can apply to your program.

Quality Improvement Education

The ACS is committed to equipping every healthcare provider with the basic knowledge and skills to start on the path toward quality improvement.

ACS NSQIP® Pediatric