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Quality improvement

Strengthening IR by leveraging data to improve quality and patient outcomes.

Standardized reports

SIR’s standardized reporting initiative assists clinicians with the integration of standardized and structured reporting into IR practice. SIR provides a comprehensive range of over 160 IR procedure report templates, covering various IR procedures, including interventional oncology, neuro, pain, pediatrics and more.

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VIRTEX

SIR's clinical data registry is focused on integrating analytics and enhancing services to support quality improvement, optimize outcomes and patient care, advance research, and demonstrate the safety, effectiveness, and value of interventional radiology.

With VIRTEX, interventional radiology takes a step forward in advancing patient care and elevating the recognition of the specialty's capabilities. This data registry will set the gold standard for clinical IR data, driving improvements in quality, practice performance, and innovation.

Quality improvement toolkits

The Practice Improvement and Change Committee (PICC) has developed the toolkits below to guide IRs in initiating quality improvement projects. 

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Clinical quality measures

Quality measures are essential to improving patient care, resource usage and patient outcomes. SIR follows the principles of measurement science using a rigorous, evidence-based, and multi-disciplinary approach that aims to link supporting evidence with outcomes, reduce variations in care, and reinforce the feasibility of measure implementation.  

These clinical quality measures are included for reporting to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) program and within MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs).

MIPS MVPs
Door to Puncture Time for Endovascular Stroke Treatment
  • Quality ID: QPP413
  • Percentage of patients undergoing endovascular stroke treatment who have a door to puncture time of 90 minutes or less
  • Measure type: Intermediate Outcome
Quality ID #413: Door to Puncture Time for Endovascular Stroke Treatment
Varicose Vein Treatment with Saphenous Ablation: Outcome Survey
  • Quality ID: QPP420
  • Percentage of patients treated for varicose veins (CEAP C2-S) who are treated with saphenous ablation (with or without adjunctive tributary treatment) that report an improvement on a disease specific patient reported outcome survey instrument after treatment
  • Measure type: Patient-Reported Outcome-Based Performance Measure
Quality ID #420: Varicose Vein Treatment with Saphenous Ablation: Outcome Survey
Appropriate Assessment of Retrievable Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) Filters for Removal
  • Quality ID: QPP421 
  • Percentage of patients in whom a retrievable IVC filter is placed who, within 3 months post-placement, have a documented assessment for the appropriateness of continued filtration, device removal, or the inability to contact the patient with at least two attempts. 
  • Measure type: Process
Quality ID #421: Appropriate Assessment of Retrievable Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) Filters for Removal
Uterine Artery Embolization Technique: Documentation of Angiographic Endpoints and Interrogation of Ovarian Arteries
  • Quality ID: QPP465
  • Percentage of patients with documentation of angiographic endpoints of embolization AND the documentation of embolization strategies in the presence of unilateral or bilateral absent uterine arteries.
  • Measure type: Process
Quality ID #465: Uterine Artery Embolization Technique: Documentation of Angiographic Endpoints and Interrogation of Ovarian Arteries

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