In an effort to improve patient care, the NPA and the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) combined their respective registries, the Quality Outcomes Database Neurovascular (QOD-NV) and the NeuroVascular Quality Initiative (NVQI), into one unified registry. This combined registry, NVQI-QOD, doubles the size of the separate registries and provides greater opportunity for collecting and analyzing perioperative and follow-up data.
The NVQI-QOD is governed by the SNIS Patient Safety Organization, which takes direction from a Governing Council comprised of representatives from both the NPA and SNIS. The NVQI-QOD is an externally hosted, web-based registry supported on the M2S® PATHWAYS™ platform.
“We are very excited about the uniting of the NVQI and QOD-NV,” commented Treasurer of the AANS/CNS CV Section and Past-President of SNIS Adam Arthur, MD, MPH, FAANS, “This is an incredible opportunity to expand the breadth and depth of the registry, while providing all participants greater comparison data that hospitals and physicians can utilize to identify best practices and improve patient care.”
Developed by physicians for physicians, NVQI-QOD captures 100% of procedures, including important demographic, procedure and post-op data to provide comprehensive outcome analysis and inform performance improvement. A significant advantage of the NVQI-QOD database is the inclusion of long-term outcomes, one year or longer.
Participation in the NVQI-QOD provides physicians and hospitals the ability to assess their incidence of complications, length of stay and other critical metrics in comparison with national benchmarks for quality assurance and highlighting areas for quality improvement. NVQI-QOD includes many of the top medical centers in North America.
The NVQI-QOD officially launched in January 2020 and as of June 30, 2020, has over 30 centers participating in the registry across 19 states.