SVIN Joins SNIS and NPA in NeuroVascular Quality Initiative-Quality Outcomes Database Registry

April 7, 2021—The Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) and NeuroPoint Alliance (NPA) announced that the Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology (SVIN) has joined the societies in the NeuroVascular Quality Initiative-Quality Outcomes Database (NVQI-QOD).

According to the announcement, the initiative expands the breadth and depth of the NVQI-QOD neurovascular registry, which is focused on improving clinical care and outcomes for patients with stroke and intracranial cerebrovascular diseases. The NVQI-QOD is governed by the SNIS Patient Safety Organization (SNIS PSO), which takes direction from a governing council composed of representatives from all three organizations.

SNIS and NPA stated that NVQI-QOD provides real-time actionable data, comparable metrics, and data on device effectiveness in neurovascular care. This web-based registry is supported on the Pathways platform (M2S, Inc., a division of Medstreaming) to integrate into a variety of workflows, providing stakeholders with a secure, robust registry solution.

Developed by physicians for physicians, NVQI-QOD captures 100% of procedures, including important demographic, procedural, and postoperative data to provide comprehensive outcome analysis and inform performance improvement. A significant advantage of the NVQI-QOD database is the inclusion of long-term outcomes, noted SNIS and NPA.

“We are very excited to collaborate with SNIS and NPA,” commented SVIN President David S. Liebeskind, MD, in the announcement. “Bringing together all three organizations is an incredible opportunity to impact patient care and work to solidify NVQI-QOD as the global neurovascular registry.”

SNIS PSO Medical Director Sameer A. Ansari, MD, stated, “This addition of SVIN will facilitate the support and participation of nearly all neurointerventional providers for the NVQI-QOD registry, which harbors the most advanced quality metrics and electronic databases in our field, providing the sample size and statistical power of potentially hundreds of institutions.”

Kevin M. Cockroft, MD, Vice Chair of NPA’s Board of Directors, added, “This collaboration continues the expansion of our mission to harness the power of data to improve the quality of neurosurgical care. We welcome SVIN and look forward to working together.”