A group of Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP) hospitals in either a specified geographic area or a hospital system working together with the shared goal of trauma system quality improvement.
Benefits
- Benchmark risk-adjusted outcomes as a state, region, or hospital-based system against all nationally participating TQIP centers
- Discover areas for system-level trauma center quality improvement
- Bring stakeholders together to improve trauma care outcomes across the system
- Identify and share best practices among Collaborative participants
- Receive education tailored to your phase of Collaborative development
Key Elements for Collaborative Success
- Strong leadership
- Culture of trust
- System-wide goals and initiatives
- Clear roles and responsibilities
- Networking among hospitals
- Sharing of results
- Consistent data
Reporting
Semi-annual reports aggregate data from all participating hospitals into a single Collaborative entity. This compares collective Collaborative performance to all other TQIP participants and provides an opportunity to identify system-wide issues/strengths, which may not be identifiable from the perspective of individual institutions. The Collaborative Benchmark Reports offer a bird鈥檚 eye view of system performance.
Analytic Tools
- Available on the Trauma 乌鸦传媒 (TQP) Data Center, The TQP Explorer augments the static reports and allows Collaborative participants to explore patient-level trends related to risk-adjusted outcomes, and can be used to inform performance improvement initiatives within the Collaborative.
- The Drill-Down Exercise helps Collaboratives manage a self-directed drill-down of system-level outcomes. Using the TQIP analytic tools as your primary resources, hospital-level discoveries in clinical care or data quality are aggregated for the purpose of discussion and the development of performance improvement initiatives at the system level.
- The TQIP Participant Use File is a dataset available for request, which allows participants the flexibility to conduct independent analyses on TQIP data
Training and Education
- Collaborative leadership receives two complimentary registrations to attend the TQIP Annual Conference.
- Collaboratives have access to the variety of educational opportunities available to individual TQIP hospitals, including the TQIP education modules, regular webinars, and monthly quizzes.
- TQIP provides networking opportunities at the TQIP Annual Meeting for individual Collaboratives to increase opportunities for communication and relationship building among Collaborative participants.
- To facilitate the sharing of best practices among Collaboratives, TQIP offers Collaborative-focused sessions at the TQIP Annual Conference and webinars where Collaborative leaders present on the utilization of the TQIP Report for system-wide PI and address overcoming barriers related to center engagement, data sharing, and data homogeneity.
Contact us at tqip@facs.org for more information about TQIP Collaboratives.
