Surgeon Champion Who’s that? What’s the role? June 2012

Surgeon Champion Hospital Contract Designate a Surgeon Champion to oversee ACS NSQIP implementation and administration at the medical center, participate in conference calls and attend the annual ACS NSQIP meeting Surgeon Champion As the resident ACS NSQIP “expert,” the Surgeon Champion is a source of information about ACS NSQIP to hospital staff. This person: Holds regular meetings with the SCR, quality staff and department heads to review ACS NSQIP reports and address any issues. Shares learnings, best practices, case studies with hospital staff Participates in an annual ACS NSQIP meeting and quarterly conference calls

BC Law Medical staff of a hospital 4 (1) A hospital's board must organize a medical staff of which every practitioner regularly practising in the hospital must be a member. (2) A hospital's board must, after consultation with the executive body of the hospital's medical staff, promulgate bylaws for that medical staff. (3) A hospital's medical staff must comply with all of the following: (a) meet regularly in accordance with the Standards issued by the Canadian Council on Health Agency Accreditation; (b) keep proper minutes of its meetings; (c) act in an advisory capacity to the hospital's board, in the manner provided in this regulation and provided in the bylaws and rules, if any, of the hospital; (d) make recommendations regarding the various categories of medical staff membership to be established by the hospital's board and the duties, responsibilities and privileges to be assigned to each category; (e) assist the hospital's board in providing adequate documentation for the purpose of maintaining a health record for each patient; (f) participate in appropriate quality improvement activities, including, without limitation, reviewing the following: (i) deaths occurring in the hospital; (ii) statistics regarding the progress of patients in the hospital; (iii) methods of treatment of patients in the hospital; (iv) results of surgery performed in the hospital ; (v) a case when a patient's stay in the hospital is abnormally long; (g) report to the hospital's board the name of any member who, without reasonable excuse, fails to attend its meetings or to participate in the performance of its duties; (h) discipline any of its members in a manner it thinks fit and, if the circumstances in any case so warrant, recommend to the hospital's board the cancellation, suspension, restriction or non-renewal of the member's permit to practise in the hospital.

Our Challenge Introduce ACS-NSQIP to multiple hospitals Evaluate effectiveness at 2 years

Progress 18 sites enrolled SCR training & support Education on data analysis Education on QI principles

Lagging Behind The Surgeon Champions ◦Following not leading ◦Changes in Surgeon Champion at site ◦Unrestricted access to Surgeon Champion data

Questions to answer -meetings with the SCR - learn anything? -data drill down - results? developed targets? -have you logged onto the NSQIP website to see your SC data? -stewardship of NSQIP data - are you in charge? -how often shall we communicate - monthly? quarterly? face to face? -do your surgeons understand the program? - obstacles? -what's your objective for the program? -any concerns?