ACSQHC-ARCR-195

The aim of ANZCA PCORE: Pilot is to develop a pilot population-based perioperative clinical quality registry to optimise quality of care provided to individuals undergoing anaesthesia and surgery, in accordance with the Operating Principles of the Framework for Australian Clinical Quality Registries. The target population is adults undergoing inpatient non-cardiac surgery (requiring a hospital stay of at least 1 night postoperatively). Public and private hospitals in each state and territory of Australia are invited to join ANZCA PCORE: Pilot.

ANZCA PCORE: Pilot plans to collect a minimum dataset of perioperative risk factors, process of care data (including critical care admission) and mortality data to provide:

• Measurement of perioperative risk factors and mortality outcomes
• Risk adjusted benchmarking of hospital performance
• Identification of outlying hospitals
• Mortality risk prediction modelling
• Population-level epidemiological data to inform clinical trials and cohort studies
• Facilitation of registry-based cohort studies

The pilot registry will initially be based at Monash University but has ethics approval to be hosted at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare in Canberra and enabled for data linkage to the ANZICS CORE Registries and the National Death Index.