3 American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Participant Use Data File (ACS-NSQIP)
3.3 Description
- HIPAA-compliant data file
- De-identified, adult, patient-level, aggregate data
- Major surgical procedures, inpatient and outpatient
- Cases submitted to the ACS NSQIP by participating sites that received risk-adjusted reports
- Over 150 variables, including preoperative risk factors, intraoperative variables, and 30- day postoperative mortality and morbidity outcomes
- Main dataset along with surgical targeted datasets
3.6 Collection Methodology
- Data captured by a Surgical Clinical Reviewer through chart abstraction and other methods
- Portions of data may have been automatically populated by software designed to extract from existing hospital information systems
- Auditing performed on a sample of cases at each site; those not meeting certain criteria are not included in the dataset
- Smaller sites may provide all eligible cases; other sites may use systematic sampling
3.8 User Guide/Data Dictionary
https://www.facs.org/media/tjcd1biq/nsqip_puf_userguide_2021_20221102120632.pdf