Why should I join the Vascular Quality Initiative?

Use of data from the Vascular Quality Initiative registry to support regulatory decisions yielded a high return on investment

“… 6 Data in the VQI registry are entered voluntarily by participating centers broadly distributed across the USA and comprise academic, teaching affiliated, and community hospitals. 8 9 Data are captured in individual procedural registries and include device-specific data that can be used to monitor the performance of devices in real-world use. Accuracy and uniformity of data collected in VQI are assured by error trapping at data entry, help text for each variable, and webinars and face to face meetings to educate data managers.…”

“…Accuracy and uniformity of data collected in VQI are assured by error trapping at data entry, help text for each variable, and webinars and face to face meetings to educate data managers. 8 Submission of consecutive cases is assured by annual audit of claims data submitted by each center participating in a device evaluation project. Source data are requested and obtained from sites to clarify any outlier or questionable data identified during analysis.…”

Long-term outcomes in the smoking claudicant after peripheral vascular interventions

“…The registry contains preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative variables at approximately 1,000 centers in the United States and Canada. (17,18) Additionally, the Vascular Implant Surveillance and Interventional Outcomes Network (VISION) is a partnership between VQI and MDEpiNet which links VQI data to Medicare data allowing long-term outcomes analysis. (19) This particular study was conducted using the peripheral vascular intervention dataset after obtaining approval from the J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f VQI Research Advisory Committee for VQI-VISION data (Protocol #4991).…”

Long-term outcomes after lower extremity bypass in the actively smoking claudicant

“…The Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) is a prospectively collected registry with preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative variables at 1000 centers in the United States and Canada. 14,15 This study was conducted with the Vascular Implant Surveillance and Interventional Outcomes Network (VISION), which is a collaboration between VQI and MDEpiNet to link VQI data to Medicare claim data allowing long-term outcomes analysis. 16 We used the infrainguinal bypass dataset after obtaining approval from the VQI Research Advisory Committee for VQI-VISION data (Protocol #4772 and #4991).…”