The vision of the AQI is to become the primary source of information for quality improvement in the clinical practice of anesthesiology.
The mission of the AQI is to develop and maintain an ongoing registry of case data that helps anesthesiologists assess and improve patient care. Organize the registry so that anesthesiology practice groups desire to submit their case information, and so that individual anesthesiologists, practice groups, researchers, and professional societies find the data useful for improving the quality of care.
Currently, the AQI is gathering data on 900 facilities and 6,000 providers (MD/DO/CRNA). We have over 2.2 million cases in the National Anesthesia Clinical Outcomes Registry (NACOR). This number is growing every day as new practices submit data and existing practices contribute their monthly cases.
We have practices who do everything on paper to the most wired academic centers in the country as members of AQI.
You do not need an AIMS system or Electronic Health Records to participate in AQI. We will work with you to contribute what data is readily available.
AQI is collecting the following types of data:
Billing/Administrative
Quality/Perioperative Events
AIMS data
Electronic Medical Record
View this introduction by Dr. Richard Dutton, Executive Director of the Anesthesia Quality Institute. He outlines the vision and goals of the AQI. Benefits for the practices are also explained.
