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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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Quality Programs

Data and Registries

Leveraging the right data in the right way can improve patient care and outcomes

Data and Registries

Access the Best Data for Your Hospital

ACS data registries provide hospitals, surgeons, and care teams with clinical data, benchmarking, and reporting tools that support quality measurement and improvement across surgical specialties. Through specialty-specific registries and national databases, participants can collect standardized clinical data, evaluate outcomes, compare performance with peer organizations, and identify opportunities to improve patient care.

Clinical Data Strategy

Learn about ACS's Clinical Data Strategy, leveraging Epic’s Community Registry to streamline data collection and enhance surgical quality improvement.

ACS National Surgical Quality Improvement Program

The ACS NSQIP is a variable-based data registry designed to improve hospital-wide quality across surgical departments in acute care hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.

ACS National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Pediatric

ACS NSQIP Pediatric helps hospitals collect reliable clinical data and compare their surgical outcomes with the outcomes of other participants.

Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program

MBSAQIP helps hospitals collect high-quality bariatric outcomes data to enable benchmarking.

National Cancer Database

The National Cancer Database is a clinical oncology database sourced from hospital registry data collected in over 1,500 CoC-accredited facilities.

Trauma Quality Improvement Program

TQIP collects data from trauma centers, provides feedback about performance, and identifies opportunities to improve patient outcomes.