Project objectives
The aim of the project was to compare data collected by Surgical Clinical Reviewers (SCRs) for submission to the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) with data collected by hospitals as a by-product of administrative processes (i.e. data contained in hospital patient administration systems). The project was undertaken in the context of the expansion of hospitals in NSW participating in NSQIP, to reduce the effort by SCRs to enable them to achieve the sample sizes of data requested by the Program, and to maximise the quality of the data.