Discover What
Many Other
Practices Already
Know
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Help to
IMPROVE
patient’s
quality of care
Help to
LOWER
Anesthesia
mortality rates
Help to
LOWER
Anesthesia
Incidents
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Gap Analysis
Quality &
Performance
Improvement
Registry
Data
Report sent
summarizing
quality indicators
in your practice
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Awareness
Why Invest
 Unique clinical information
 Access to educational resources for
advancing your group’s quality
management efforts
 Support for novel scientific research
production
 Scaled delivery of registry-driven
quality improvement programs
Data elements and
definitions
Observational
Database
Clinical
Data
Quality
Assessment
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Quality
Improvement
Clinical
Research
Launched
AQI
2009
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NACOR had 13 practices NACOR grew to 40
86 Facilities
practices
666 Providers
386 facilities
336,469 cases
2,575 providers
2,005,367 cases
2010
2011
NACOR had 93
practices
773 facilities
6,551 providers
7,144,573 cases
2012
NACOR now has 162
practices
1,330 facilities
13,404 Providers
Over 12 million cases
2013
This is
now…
That was
then…
• Launched
2009
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Over 12
million cases
AQI also
launched the
PUF
(participant
user file) &
AIRS
(Anesthesia
Incident
Reporting
System)
Here is
our
future…
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AQI will be the
“one stop shop”
for ASA members
& their practice
groups to obtain
business
benchmarking
data.
AQI hopes to
have data from
the majority of the
anesthesia
practices in the
United States
Sign AQI
participation
and Business
Associates data
use agreements
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Enter practice,
provider, and
facility
information on
the AQI website
AQI Information
Technology
team will
contact you to
facilitate data
translation to
the Registry
Registry
participant
uploads data to
the Registry
AQI provides
Registry
participant with
reports
Participants
access quarterly
reports on AQI
website
AQI Reports
Reports include
participant data
and aggregated
national data
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Customized
reporting features
allow filtering by
facility type, patient
variables, and
surgical case.
Data tables and
illustrative
charts are
displayed
Reports can
be accessed
at the practice,
facility, or
provider level
Clinical Data
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Quality Benchmarks
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Age of patients nationally compared to
your practice
Gender of
patients
nationally
compared to
your practice
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Types of procedures
your practice
performed
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www.aqihq.org
or
askaqi@asahq.org
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