Outcomes Reported by the Vascular Quality Initiative and the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Are not Comparable

The Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) and the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) are databases of vascular surgery outcomes. VQI uses self-reporting to capture all vascular procedures during the inpatient period. NSQIP employs nurse abstractors to capture a sample of procedures and covers 30-day events. We hypothesize that patients undergoing lower extremity bypass (LEB) exhibit high concordance for preoperative variables and low concordance for postoperative variable.
Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Abstracts from the 2013 New England Society for Vascular Surgery Annual Meeting Source Type: research